Re:Apple's reaction to protests: AirDrop is now limited to 1...
by echelon on Monday November 28, 2022 @03:11PM
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Apple loves to keep up appearances, but they are behind some of the worst behaviors in our industry.
Apple has already soured competition in computing by making the App Store the only way to reach 51+% of Americans with your software. They heavily tax it, artificially limit your ability to update and deploy, force you to devote resources to regularly adhere to Apple standards, let people place ads under your name, kill your customer relationships, force deep Apple product integrations, etc.
"CSAM device scanning" is a Trojan horse that will absolutely be abused in situations like we're seeing in China now.
Apple sells itself on privacy, yet collects more info on you than Facebook to feed their growing ads business. It's hypocrisy.
Other major tech companies looked at China and said no. Why can't Apple?
Apple has already soured competition in computing by making the App Store the only way to reach 51+% of Americans with your software. They heavily tax it, artificially limit your ability to update and deploy, force you to devote resources to regularly adhere to Apple standards, let people place ads under your name, kill your customer relationships, force deep Apple product integrations, etc.
"CSAM device scanning" is a Trojan horse that will absolutely be abused in situations like we're seeing in China now.
Apple sells itself on privacy, yet collects more info on you than Facebook to feed their growing ads business. It's hypocrisy.
Other major tech companies looked at China and said no. Why can't Apple?