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Doesn't Apple track every app you install, access and run? Track you if you want to develop your own code for your own fully paid for device?
by ProAm 6y ago
Doesn't Apple track every app you install, access and run? Track you if you want to develop your own code for your own fully paid for device?
- ffpip 6y ago> Doesn't Apple track every app you install, access and run? Do you have a source on the them tracking every app a user runs? Obviously they have to collect every app I install for updates and subscriptions, but collecting every run might be too much.
- cblconfederate 6y agoDon't they verify executables for this reason? Do they provide info about whether they log this process?
- Nextgrid 6y agoI believe iOS handles this process differently. Apps are signed in advance (when the app is approved and published to the Store) and the signatures are only checked locally against a hardcoded signing key. But even on Mac when it comes to notarization, I'm pretty sure the signatures are only checked on first run and then the result of that is cached (partly for performance reasons).
- sroussey 6y agoSame on Mac AppStore.
- ffpip 6y agoWhy would they verify it everytime you run the app? It already goes through heavy review before it comes onto the app store.
- izacus 6y agoThey advertise a whole product which draws all this tracking data as nice graphs to developers: https://developer.apple.com/app-store-connect/analytics/ https://developer.apple.com/app-store-connect/analytics/ It's essentially Google Analytics, just for apps on iOS. Where do you think those "Daily active devices" data comes from?
- anater 6y agoUsers must opt in though. It’s part of the iOS set up to allow this and you can change it any time
- lern_too_spel 6y agoThis setting is opt out, not opt-in. It's unclear if opting out hides the data from Apple or just from the app developers.
- Nextgrid 6y agoIt is opt-in now; when setting up iOS for the first time it asks you if you'd like to enable "iPhone analytics" (OS-wide analytics for Apple) and if you accept then it asks you whether you want to share the analytical data with the app developers.
- Dahoon 6y agoIt's opt out.
- saagarjha 6y agoNo, it’s opt in when you set up your device.
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- slipheen 6y agoThat really does seem like whataboutism. No one is claiming Apple is perfect, but this is a marked improvement of apps requiring tracking to function.
- ProAm 6y agoNo its more about the pot calling the kettle black. Do as I say not as I do because I know whats best for you. I can see it seems to be whataboutism but that was not my intention, it's about hypocrisy.
- birthdaydog 6y agoThis is exactly whataboutism.
- ProAm 6y agoI think we're arguing semantics about business philosophy.
- samatman 6y agowhataboutism: n. An accusation of hypocrisy designed to deflect from bad behavior on the part of another party.
- ProAm 6y agoHa! Ive never actually looked the definition up. This is definitely whataboutism (I still havent looked the definition up so Im trusting this the actual definition)
- samatman 6y agowell, I did make that up. but here's dictionary.com on the subject, and I think it's congruent, you'll have to judge for yourself: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/whataboutism https://www.dictionary.com/browse/whataboutism
- sbuk 6y agoThere has to be be some degree of tying purchases to an account. The real issue here is what is done with the data after it's been collected. Internal use is one thing; such as improving apps etc. When it's used to target individual in a bid to influence their thinking, that's when the real problem starts. Are Apple guilty of the latter?
- lern_too_spel 6y agoCertainly. They use it in app store ads, to determine their own product development, and to market their products. On other platforms, I can install apps on my devices without telling anybody.
- anater 6y agoWhich platforms?
- lern_too_spel 6y agoMost Android distributions, most Linux distributions, Windows, etc.
- threeseed 6y agoPretty sure most of those would be sending telemetry including installed apps back to the company. And we know for a fact Windows does this.
- lern_too_spel 6y ago> Pretty sure... Now you know that you were wrong. Windows allows you to disable telemetry and certainly doesn't report apps you install to Microsoft if you don't want it to. Same for Android and obviously for desktop and server Linux distros. This is simply not possible on iOS.
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- threeseed 6y agoOn iOS under: Privacy -> Analytics & Improvements They (a) show what data is being sent e.g. stack traces and (b) provide the privacy policies. At least on my device I am not seeing a list of apps being sent to Apple.
- withinboredom 6y agoYour device doesn’t need to send it. They know what apps you’ve downloaded already and on what device. The real question is, does it send when you remove an app? If so, they are tracking your apps you have installed. If your device offloads apps, they know when you download it again and thus can infer usage.