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Re:We launched an app with $500k annual revenue, and then Ap... by megous on Monday June 17, 2019 @07:36PM (#20208355)
I was talking about Apple providing api to get information about screen time of other apps, so that these kinds of monitoring apps don't need such hacks.
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Re:We launched an app with $500k annual revenue, and then Ap... by scarface74 on Monday June 17, 2019 @07:48PM (#20208445)
This is also why Facebook bought Onava. Even without access via a VPN, that would have been enough information for Facebook to know that people were spending a lot of time on WhatsApp and to know that it was becoming popular. Would you be okay with that?
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