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Gmail iOS App Has Out of Date Warning After 2 Months of No Updates as Google Delays Privacy Labels [Updated]
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As long as google is filling up apples pockets with a **** load of cash every year, this will never happen.
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It looks like Apple is showing bias which doesn't look good at all, especially to the other developers who are doing their best to adhere to rules in a timely manner.
Love how everyone is quick to jump on the hate train with google. I mean ffs already. Aren't they taking a while because is helping them figure out how to add these labels since they are services that are tied to not only each other, but to your account?
Hey, it's a lot of hard work to keep intentionally breaking picture-in-picture functionality that Apple tries to give them for free!
For what though? An outdated app on the App Store that still works?
It must be just so hard for the dev team at Google to just click "Select All" for privacy labels and push the update. /s
They haven't updated the privacy label. They are not in compliance that I can see.
At the end of the day the almighty dollar rules, and Google's offerings are pretty compelling for many businesses from that point of view. Besides, it's not like Microsoft doesn't have its own challenges too... I've worked with both and sadly there's no perfect solution out there for businesses that want to shift to the cloud — which these days is just about everybody.
But it’s Google’s apparent resistance to come clean that is the issue here, not what they are all up to. As they inform users, the market will respond to meet our needs, and this will all gradually change. Of course it’s naive to suppose that it will stop, but let’s have the transparency and opportunity for the level of privacy each of us is satisfied with
Yes, Google is clearly well intentioned but sadly too busy /s
Gmail's privacy practices are not new though. People act like this is some new hurdle they must overcome to make up policies or disclose them. Sure, they have to figure out which of Apple's boxes to check.
But their privacy stance/practice has ALWAYS been in their terms of service. This is not some new or novel practice. If you use Gmail or Google services, you know what you signed up for. All this stuff has been in major news for years (with Facebook and other big companies); unless you lived under a rock or something.
My guess is 95%+ of normal non-tech people will never read the privacy label anyway or know what it is (or that it is even there). And the vast, vast majority of people are not going to stop using Gmail no matter what the privacy sheet says to make any sizable dent in their userbase.
Google knows they are big enough to ignore what Apple wants them to do. Apple thinks otherwise. Interesting to see who folds first.
I don't see why Google apps just don't display a box that gives two choices. OK with tracking everything as that is the price you pay to use the app as choice one continue to use app. Exit as choice two. People have to know by now that if it is free, you are the product, not the customer.
I don't see why Google apps just don't display a box that gives two choices. OK with tracking everything as that is the price you pay to use the app as choice one continue to use app. Exit as choice two. People have to know by now that if it is free, you are the product, not the customer.
We aren't even to the IDFA yet. This is just "put a label on the download page of what you use user information for".
And the app store rules do not let you make functionality conditional on tracking. If you want to require tracking, then stick to websites in Safari.
Hmm. Perhaps Google is considering dumping some of their iOS apps then. Gmail would certainly be a prime candidate.
People are assuming this is about the privacy label, when it may be more about the 'opt out of tracking' button.
Perhaps - but the requirement to inform users of tracking is not live yet.
Publicly Google has said that they will nudge users to log in rather than use device-level tracking, so they will not need to prompt users and don't see this impacting them much.