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A comment on Apple’s Social Network. Parent comment

Re:Apple’s Social Network by cromwellian on Monday November 05, 2018 @01:16PM (#18384537)
The search engine isn’t the only issue. I mean, the App Store allows Facebook and a bonanza of other privacy violating apps.

Apple to some extent launders responsibility for extremely useful services that require or use personal data by outsourcing it to others.

Why not actually turn iMessage into a privacy preserving social network?

For the same reason, as with search, I think the difficulty is underestimated.

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Re:Apple’s Social Network by cronix on Monday November 05, 2018 @02:29PM (#18385150)
To me, the difference is Apple enables Google as the default search engine by default, for everyone, while the app store is stuff the user manually opts-in for by selecting what to install.
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