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No more than a mall sells customers to the retailers it contains. (With the caveat that, with Apple, customers aren't allowed to shop at another mall.) The mall
by ineedasername 6y ago
No more than a mall sells customers to the retailers it contains. (With the caveat that, with Apple, customers aren't allowed to shop at another mall.) The mall (app store) may let retailers advertise via kiosks and banners etc, but that's basically keyword advertising, not selling personal information.
Providing a marketplace like this might loosely be construed as "selling customers" but it is in a massively different class of less abusive behavior than how facebook sells customers.
- kyriakos 6y agoMalls also don't enforce their payment system
- Proziam 6y agoThey also don't stop people from going to a neighboring mall. Unfortunately, the app stores' owners certainly do that. https://www.wired.com/story/install-apps-outside-app-store-sideload/ https://www.wired.com/story/install-apps-outside-app-store-s...
- ineedasername 6y agoSure, but that's in a different class of user-abusive behavior than the pettiness of Facebook trying to "inflict pain" on Apple in one of the areas where Apple is less abusive to users.
- kyriakos 6y agoWhat people don't understand is that because Facebook is doing something bad doesn't mean apple isn't also.
- ineedasername 6y agoWhat I meant by a "different class" was simply that it did not pertain to the privacy aspects of user-hostility brought up by this article.
- cma 6y ago> with Apple, customers aren't allowed to shop at another mall And if they switch to another mall Apple will make their messages green on white to make it harder for elderly parents who stayed in the mall to read and keep up with their kids. That's pretty abusive too, a sort of excommunication via inscrutability.