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This policy was announced in June, what is taking Google so long? Do they really have that much to hide or is the iOS developer team really that incompetent?
by minikites 6y ago
This policy was announced in June, what is taking Google so long? Do they really have that much to hide or is the iOS developer team really that incompetent?
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoGoogle believes in running out the clock. In it's antitrust investigations it always responds on the last day allowed... after requesting as many extensions as possible. The truth is that the status quo of Google being a privacy-violating unregulated monopoly is incredibly profitable, so they're going to drag out changing that to the last possible moment.
- justapassenger 6y agoHave you ever worked on really big complex app, working on top of even more complex backend, where suddenly big set of requirements changes? Especially, as getting update right is really critical. People give big tech no credit for trying to be honest (and for often good reason - lots of their decision are shady/have more details that are omitted), but they won’t intentionally straight out lie about how they use your data - that’s a legal suicide. Huge amount of due diligence is needed when scope of what’s allowed is changing.
- zwily 6y agoWhy not just update the app and check every user-tracking box on the form like Facebook did? We already know we are tracked at insane levels by Google.
- minikites 6y agoExactly, doing what this comment describes should not have taken eight months no matter how dysfunctional the organization is.