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Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Apple being Apple again. Just why does anyone actually like that company?

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[–] [email protected] 164 points 9 months ago (11 children)

Man, they're seething against the EU, totally pissed that the legislators worked against their abuse over developers and rubbed against their cash cow.

Apple is all about money and fucking the user, being no different from Meta or Google. All they have is shinier hardware.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What about privacy though? Google runs an ad network, so clearly they have financial incentive to spy hard.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

So does Apple, the difference being they grabbed it all to themselves. This is why they have "no tracking" options, to seal competition off while selling themselves as the privacy champions and also selling their in house ad solution. That and the fact that they worked with the government behind users back, and having a shoddy work to secure their OS.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56995192

https://www.vox.com/recode/23045136/apple-app-tracking-transparency-privacy-ads

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-secretly-giving-governments-push-notification-data/

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/iphone-privacy-feature-hiding-wi-fi-macs-has-failed-to-work-for-3-years/

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/hackers-can-id-unique-apple-airdrop-users-chinese-authorities-claim-to-do-just-that/

Apple is not any better than Meta, they just lie better.

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