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Further to this, Apple auditing that Uber is not abusing this permission is pretty easy: they could reasonably have Apple engineers embedded in the team at Ube

Further to this, Apple auditing that Uber is not abusing this permission is pretty easy: they could reasonably have Apple engineers embedded in the team at Uber – something that would make sense for the scale, Uber is a US company, based in CA, so dealing with it in court would be possible and a fairly well-defined process, Apple could even have engineers trace the application properly during App Store review to check what it was doing at runtime, or put very stringent requirements on _how_ the entitlement was used at the code level to make it easier for them to enforce usage. None of that scales to the millions of developers they have on their platform, but for such a key application, for essentially marketing purposes for the Apple Watch product launch, sure.

hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
> Further to this, Apple auditing that Uber is not abusing this permission is pretty easy Are we talking about the same company using Greyball to fool local authorities not just abroad, but also in the USA? Taking into account total lack of moral integrity in their top management, I would not believe in anything they promise.
- danpalmer 5y ago
  > I would not believe in anything they promise. This is exactly my point – there's very little trust needed because Apple can verify/audit one company far more than they can the millions of registered developers. I'm not saying I agree with it, I'm saying I can understand why they did it, why it works, and that it's likely possible to do safely.