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Huh, all that and I didn’t see an explicit call out to how Apple has changed the location sharing in the background prompts to include a creepy map, prompting y
by lstamour 7y ago
Huh, all that and I didn’t see an explicit call out to how Apple has changed the location sharing in the background prompts to include a creepy map, prompting you to wake up a bit instead of automatically hitting Allow location sharing: https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/18/ios-13-security-privacy https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/18/ios-13-security-privacy
- Someone1234 7y agoWow. What's the opposite of an anti-pattern? Because in terms of visualizing the privacy implications that deserves real praise and likely took quite a bit of work. They should be proud of that, and it makes it seem like their privacy push is more than just a momentary marking-led move.
- simonh 7y agoOh it's definitely at least partially a marketing issue. They're very keen to promote to users that iOS provides strong controls over privacy, it's a clear differentiator and selling point. I just don't think that's enough to explain it. Apple was all-in on user privacy right for the beginning, back when their market cap was a small fraction of what it is now, when Wall Street was salivating over the huge profits to be made out of mining social graphs, and when Google was offering big money for access to user data. Instead Apple decided to put up the finger to Google, until then a close partner, and spent billions of dollars building Apple Maps. There is absolutely no way Apple could possibly have expected a marginal marketing advantage, which was very minimal at first for many years, to compensate for the very lucrative immediate opportunities they gave up. The financial incentive argument just doesn't come close to adding up.