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Apple knows they're going toe-to-toe with Facebook, and they don't seem to plan to lose.
by pwinnski 6y ago
Apple knows they're going toe-to-toe with Facebook, and they don't seem to plan to lose.
- voteflipper 6y agoWell, it’s because it’s a winning strategy to anyone who remotely gets concerned or paranoid about being spied on.
- ogre_codes 6y agoConsidering how much digital spying happens, it is not paranoia to be concerned about it. If you caught your neighbor peeking in your windows 5 times a day, putting up a fence isn't being paranoid.
- warkdarrior 6y agoThe fence manufacturers and installers would like to remind that all your neighbors are peeking in your windows.
- _qulr 6y agoThis feels to me like Apple creating a convenient Orwellian enemy. They're not even competitors, because Apple doesn't have a social network, Facebook doesn't sell computers, and indeed Facebook is currently among the grossing apps in the iOS App Store, 30% of which Apple gets. If Facebook was as terrible as Apple makes them out to be, why would Apple allow Facebook in their App Store and take 30% of the generated revenue? It's hypocritical for Apple to criticize Facebook. If anything, the App Store made Facebook more popular than ever, so it's a "monster" that Apple helped create. EDIT: My perspective is that the App Store and iOS lockdown have been harmful to user privacy, and Facebook is merely a convenient enemy to distract from the harmfulness of Apple's own current business model. On the Mac, I can install Little Snitch and prevent software from phoning home to both facebook.com and apple.com. I can't do any of this on iPhone. (And indeed, Little Snitch is not even compatible with the restrictive Mac App Store rules, so it has to be distributed outside the MAS.) The iPhone platform is designed such that software like Facebook thrives, and software like Little Snitch cannot exist.
- user-the-name 6y agoApple gets no revenue from Facebook, their app is free and has no in-app purchases.
- _qulr 6y agoPlease check the App Store before you make obviously false and easily refutable assertions.
- user-the-name 6y agoHmm, looks like a recent feature. I doubt it is particularly large.
- _qulr 6y ago> I doubt it is particularly large. Facebook is currently 43 in the list of the top grossing apps. I'm still running iTunes 12.6 which shows these lists.
- user-the-name 6y agoOk, so Facebook is the 43 top grossing app. What exactly do you want them to do? Single them out and not allow them to use IAPs?
- quesera 6y agoI wish you had posted the constructive form of reply, e.g.: Recently, Facebook added in-app purchases for things like X. Because here I am still wondering what the hell X could possibly be.
- avianlyric 6y ago> If Facebook was as terrible as Apple makes them out to be, Where is Apple doing this? Far as I can tell Apple are just saying that people don’t understand how their data is being used, and that companies should educate, and get informed consent. It’s Facebook that’s demonising Apple here, not the other way around. Other than in direct responses to attacks by Facebook, where has Apple even used Facebook’s name?
- quesera 6y agoWhat part of this document is about Facebook and not Google?
- ogre_codes 6y agoFacebook is at least for the moment the company which is vocally fighting this. Google probably just quietly changed their API to use undetectable fingerprinting.
- m463 6y agohas google updated their apps yet?