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Re:Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.... by nojito on Thursday January 14, 2021 @11:30AM (#25778327)
This comment has no basis of truth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39iKLwlUqBo

Jobs @ D8

People are quick to forget because back then everyone (including HN) was praising Google for everything under the sun.

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Re:Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.... by conradev on Thursday January 14, 2021 @03:07PM (#25781756)
In that video, Steve mentions the fact that iOS had location permission prompts before iOS 6 – is that what you are referring to as incorrect? Because that is a good catch, permission prompts were present at least as early as iOS 4.2:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corelocation/clloc...

EDIT: Oh, I see, if you are referring to the PR or marketing portion, I think it is certainly clear that Apple had a pro-privacy stance, but that did not make its way into the company's _consumer_ marketing:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120718122643/http://www.apple....

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