We launched an app with $500k annual revenue, and then Apple copied it

Re:We launched an app with $500k annual revenue, and then Ap... by namesbc on Monday June 17, 2019 @04:32PM (#20207032)

This type of app would have been possible to build without a VPN on any other OS. Apple has chosen to make it difficult for anyone other than themselves to build such apps.

This is an abuse of market position in one market to expand in another, and has a long term negative effect on the health of the industry if only the large players that own the ecosystem can profit from it.

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Re:We launched an app with $500k annual revenue, and then Ap... by scarface74 on Monday June 17, 2019 @04:41PM (#20207150)

So you’re okay with all of your personal information going through a third party whose explicit aim is to monetize the analytics?

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Re:We launched an app with $500k annual revenue, and then Ap... by rhinoceraptor on Monday June 17, 2019 @04:38PM (#20207106)

Do you really want 3rd party developers to be able to write apps that can introspect all other apps running on a phone?

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Re:We launched an app with $500k annual revenue, and then Ap... by lacker on Monday June 17, 2019 @04:42PM (#20207157)

Yes. "top" and "ps" are pretty useful tools.

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Re:We launched an app with $500k annual revenue, and then Ap... by rhinoceraptor on Monday June 17, 2019 @04:49PM (#20207224)

Those are developer tools, so of course they need to do things you would never want Slack to do, for example. Also, Apple themselves ported Dtrace to MacOS. If you want the ultimate computing surveillance tool, Dtrace is a good bet.

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Re:We launched an app with $500k annual revenue, and then Ap... by kstrauser on Monday June 17, 2019 @04:43PM (#20207158)

Sandboxing apps (and implementing other strong security mechanisms) is not an abuse of market position.

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