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A comment on Apple’s crackdown on multicast. Parent comment

Re:Apple’s crackdown on multicast by callmeal on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @08:14AM (#28287771)
>I bloody adore how they restrict the apps

Well, they only restrict apps for us peons. Companies with money can use undocumented apis no problem. Case in point:

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/05/09/zoom-ipad-camera-api-ac...

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Re:Apple’s crackdown on multicast by P_I_Staker on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @01:19PM (#28291959)
Does this go much deeper than zoom? They're the only one's I've really heard of. IMO, apples walled off model has some pretty serious flaws, so I'm not surprised if there's exceptions

* Well, I'm somewhat surprised, because it's apple, and they tend to be overly idealistic... but there seems to be a bit less of that in the post-Jobs era

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Re:Apple’s crackdown on multicast by kalleboo on Thursday August 26, 2021 @02:41AM (#28311434)
Uber also had a private entitlement https://www.techspot.com/news/71289-apple-granted-uber-ios-a...

As well as Hulu https://www.macrumors.com/2021/05/06/apple-hulu-special-api-...

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