Re:Tim Sweeney on Apple and Google
by romanoderoma on Saturday September 12, 2020 @08:59AM
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> 1. And most anti-virus are considered a scam by most people
Many people consider iPhone prices a scam
and yet...
> 2. Apps that make egregious use of device APIs to implement tracking won't be flagged as a virus.
That's true for the iPhone as well
Apple itself track its users.
from a news report in the Washington Post
> Apple says, “What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone.” Our privacy experiment showed 5,400 hidden app trackers guzzled our data — in a single week
The point was that the check could be implemented by third party software on the device or by a software specifically crafted by the publishers, you don't need the Apple check, which is also very opaque.
Many people consider iPhone prices a scam
and yet...
> 2. Apps that make egregious use of device APIs to implement tracking won't be flagged as a virus.
That's true for the iPhone as well
Apple itself track its users.
from a news report in the Washington Post
> Apple says, “What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone.” Our privacy experiment showed 5,400 hidden app trackers guzzled our data — in a single week
The point was that the check could be implemented by third party software on the device or by a software specifically crafted by the publishers, you don't need the Apple check, which is also very opaque.