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This is continually the problem with Apple of late.
They've become accustomed to resorting to various forms of malicious compliance.
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Apple Hit With $162 Million Fine Over App Tracking Transparency
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This is continually the problem with Apple of late.
They've become accustomed to resorting to various forms of malicious compliance.
Let its CEO remain in the job 10 years past his usefulness.
I hear the U.S. is working on that.
First, Canada will become the 51st U.S. state and then Greenland (also part of North American continent) will become the 52nd U.S. state after which it will be renamed Red-White-and-Blueland.
Maybe the devs are the problem who want to use Apple for their vessel and be completely unaccountable to anybody.
Yeah, I don't get this one at all. Who is being wronged here? The users? Advertisers? Google, Facebook? What?
The fact it ask is the issue for
Not the same prompt, no. But a very much similar prompt during device setup to allow Apple apps to use tracking. And that is a yes / no question. And every built in app adheres to it.
A third party app can't really use that setting. Even not an Apple app from the app store. And they ALL have that message if they have any form of user tracking.
Apple needs to stop bending over for the EU. The USB C thing was good but now they're showing why they have the worst tech market on Earth and why everyone comes to the USA for tech.
You have to consider that it's not about whether this is right or wrong. At the end of the day, Apple is a big pile of cash. Governments only need to consider whether their case stands a chance of winning based on whatever current laws they have...or at least their interpretation of them.
With how secretive Apple is, we as consumers don't really know.
Given how Apple has been wearing down their good-will reputation recently, I'm starting to doubt them instead of believing their marketing material at face value as before.
This is an excellent point
They've managed to really erode their "benefit of the doubt" trust factor.
I'm personally to the point of leaning towards not fully trusting what Apple say anymore, which would not have been the case for me say a decade ago.
Perhaps I was wrong then .... but it feels like it has shifted in the last few years in particular.
I mean ... we have Gruber, of all people, roasting them at times now.
Times have changed for sure.
Thank you for making my point.
This is not EU ruling, it’s at the national French level. Completely different. Similar to how extreme conservative red states coexist with progressive blue states.
I'm aware. I was stating European as in rulings that come from European countries, not the EU specifically.
I don't but I slept 3 hrs this night and typed this while doing something else.
It's still quite a freaking lot.
$162 mil is a blip on the radar for the UK and French economies.
It'd make a difference for a sub-billion GDP country, but if you've resorted to shaking down foreign businesses to fix your balance sheet you have other problems.
Apple doesn't track across apps! So ATT shouldn't apply to themNo. If you read the second paragraph, you would really know the real reason. It states that the authority does not consider ATT itself as a problem, but rather the way Apple is implementing it. The way Apple implements is creates friction for third party app publishers whereas it does not do the same for Apple's apps. That is the reason for the fine. I am surprised that you did not even make it till the second para
Apple bends the knee in other countries and still don’t pull out of these countries
Like Canada and the USA both are on the American continent. Do laws in Canada apply to USA as well?
It’s an abuse of market dominance, but give us a hundred million or so and it’s an abuse of market dominance we can live with.
Those users are lucky that the majority of the tech world isn’t like them, or they wouldn’t have that device they’re typing on to post on this forum! It’d be some older worse device that the government decided was “good enough”.
And, in this case, the government is doing the bidding of the pervasive ad networks that no longer have free reign to build very valuable profiles on everyone their ads get shown to, inside and outside apps. The government is doing something because companies that were doing a bad thing complained.
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