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You can easily build the feature that can be misused. Think of it as a general region filter or an emoji set to increase engagement. You want to ensure your de
by sieabahlpark 7y ago
You can easily build the feature that can be misused. Think of it as a general region filter or an emoji set to increase engagement.
You want to ensure your design team and product matches the demographic you're trying to target so you can choose which ones are approved for that area. Completely reasonable, not a malicious feature to build either.
Except when it prevents you from selling your device in China.
- datagram 7y agoFrom what we know about how the emoji blocking was implemented for mainland China, I doubt it's a benign feature just being misused: https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x34.html https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x34.html Notably, the code specifically looks for the "CN" locale, and calls "removeEmoji".
- musicale 7y agoWow, that is depressing. I would definitely be ashamed to implement a feature like that.
- kelnos 7y agoI could easily imagine (especially at a place like Apple where there's a ton of internal secrecy), the ticket for implementing removeEmoji() could have been pitched in a much broader fashion: perhaps there would be a "child mode" that would remove the middle finger emoji and others like that.