If anything compromises Apple products, in 90% of cases it's Apple's design philosophy or (stubborn?) ideals. Not a push from the spreadsheet bozos.
For better or worse, I think Tim managed to keep the product side of the company very close to what Steve wanted.
And the trend of making the product lineup more convoluted doesn't seem to be steep (it happens slowly and over time), so I'm not too worried. It seems there is time to steer it back before it gets too ridiculous.
I'm not sure personally what a better name scheme would be to differentiate it but "Pro" and "Max" together sounds funny.
There was never any "good" Apple, it was rotten from the very core. And that's just from a user perspective, nevermind what a toxic and abusive employer he has been shown to be over the years.
[0]: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
[1]: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
There have definitely been product missteps and the typical nickle and diming of storage but it hasn’t seemed like the quality has suffered too much as you’d expect if he was a true bozo.
They probably call it "included promotions" instead of ads, and pretend it’s okay.
It seems to be much less serious than the headline implies, as is common
- account information like name/address
- app downloads and subscriptions in App Store
- what news articles you looked at in Apple News/Stocks
- podcasts/movies/books/etc you downloaded via iTunes/TV
- which ads you clicked on previously
https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/apple-advertisin...
Apple claims they were using a previously approved process and their search ads on the AppStore prioritizes user privacy and will appeal.
we reserve the right to change the terms and conditions... blah, blah, fucking blah.
I'm very firmly of the opinion that an ad on the street, a billboard, or in a newspaper or magazine, or even a website (under certain conditions) is public and not private (as much as they are annoying), inasmuch as you can be filmed in public - it's a public space.
An ad on your phone is* private as it is 'yours', your number, your unique id, your puk etc. It is sent only to you, as the owner of the phone.
Unless you share your phone with several (quantity/ number to be debated) persons, which would have to be declared. But if Jenny or Jimmy from finance are looking at spicy underwear and I get the ad for more of the same when I'm on duty - then so be it! It would have had to have been declared a public phone (for such behavior to be acceptable/ accepted).
What game was this? I assumed Apple Arcade games would not have the ability to do in app purchases.
They had the wrong default setting. They changed it after 14.6
It pops up on the top of the screen every time you open the game.
They were very cagy about it, but their excuse seemed to be that it was up to the game publisher whether to include it, and that I should complain to them (even though it was sent as an Apple Arcade notification).
The niche is well established and commercial entities proved viability at some scale. But there's a wall that stops it from ever becoming a prominent model.
IMO going past that wall won't happen organically. Perhaps if ad exposure (including brand and product placements) could be accepted as social level health issue we might see more realistic progress. The same way some districts just banned billboards and ad panels by decree.
Uh [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI–Apple_encryption_dispute
It's a case where a business motivations line up with their customers (like how FB and Google's motivations to collect data lined up with their customers motivations to get free stuff).
But if they're breaking that now, that's a huge problem.
> And Tim Cook doesn’t do anything while talking about curation.
Tim Cook is THE asshole with the spreadsheets. He's shown time and again that he's an accountant with absolutely no vision other than "squeeze more money from users".
I have this sick feeling that in the past year, Apple is experiencing a brain drain and again the assholes with the spreadsheets (the bozos as Steve Jobs called them) are showing up and starting to chip away at things like privacy or in-app purchases for an extra .5% of profit.
My son was surprised to see an ad or in app purchase in an Apple Arcade game. But I still have to verify whether that’s what he saw.
But the rest of the games on the App Store are so disgustingly sly in how they prey on their users to buy more more more.
And Tim Cook doesn’t do anything while talking about curation. Where’s the curation?