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Please explain which part of this timeline is where Facebook was innocent: - 1. Facebook publishes app that steals user data to App Store, disguised as a VPN an
by beezischillin 8y ago
Please explain which part of this timeline is where Facebook was innocent:
- 1. Facebook publishes app that steals user data to App Store, disguised as a VPN and it gets removed because it violates the terms & conditions that Facebook agreed to
- 2. Facebook publishes similar enough shady app through program meant for enterprise app deployment, violating another rule on top of violating the previous set of rules again, also they access children's data
- 3. get punished, rule-violating enterprise app distribution channel gets suspended
Thought experiment: If you published an app to Microsoft's Xbox One store which spies on users' out of app habits and therefore breaks the rules and got removed, then proceeded to send everyone jailbreak kits for xboxes and trying to incentivise them to use the app that way and got punished for it, would you feel that Microsoft has it out for you?
- Wowfunhappy 8y agoApple's actions in this matter are unsurprising. However, we should all be continually disturbed that one company has the final say over which executables are allowed to run on one of the largest computing platforms on earth. Comparing the iPhone to a game console is fair, but game consoles are for very specific purposes (running interactive entertainment) whereas it's increasingly common for the iPhone to be a person's primary computing device.