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Apple is notoriously secretive about their decision-making. There's very little public information about the rationales behind even the most mundane decisions.
by AlotOfReading 4y ago
Apple is notoriously secretive about their decision-making. There's very little public information about the rationales behind even the most mundane decisions.
However the feature was limited to phones purchased in China. It makes no sense as market segmentation and it wasn't advertised in release notes as a safety change either. If it's not to comply with the government in some way, then what reasonable alternative explanations are there?
- fsociety 4y agoThey could be threading a very fine needle for a reason no one knows. Limiting airdrop seems like a lose lose. If they did it for the government, then it is a lose. If they did it to improve privacy, for some reason, then if that gets out it could cause China to retaliate. Will be interesting to see how this develops. I find it hard to understand why they did anything at all here.