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I don't understand why this wasn't there from the start - the majority of apps asking for location service just want to figure out what city/state/country you a
by _-___________-_ 6y ago
I don't understand why this wasn't there from the start - the majority of apps asking for location service just want to figure out what city/state/country you are in, and giving them access to your precise location just seems unnecessarily dangerous.
- Nextgrid 6y agoBack when the feature was originally introduced (I guess in the iPhone OS 3 era?), surveillance capitalism and spyware wasn't as widespread and it then took them a while to catch up (I guess there are backwards-compatibility concerns?).