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Report Highlights How Top Apple Executives Disagreed Over How Far iOS Anti-Tracking Measures Should Go
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Craig isn't CEO material. If he were he'd have left Apple a decade ago and given it a go at his own start up. I speak from a personal relationship with him. Great guy, not the guy you want running Steve's legacy.
He is great but a person from software team as CEO of Apple would be bad idea, because Apple makes most of the money by selling hardware so experience in manufacturing, supply chain would is most important qualification.
Exactly, alternate payment, alternate app stores are pushed by big corporation who are not able to make money in advertisements, this is not about monopoly, this is about going around App Store restrictions to make more money by stealing users data.
That could easily be handed off to someone else like Jeff Williams (who took over for Tim), who is also very talented in the Ops department. Craig actually has some vision unlike Tim who is obsessed with lets just say ….other issues. He doesn’t give a flying F what the next iPhone looks like or how the next Mac OS functions. Hes a bean counter…..a really good one who knows how to make money and keeps the trains running. But lets not pretend he has even 1/10 the design savvy that Steve had or other higher ups at Apple.
there has to be a balance though, if Apple tightens on sharing information them developers will sendup loosing and customers would have to pay for all apps, it is good to have options for people.
May be apple should have 2 options for apps, block all information sharing with the app if you pay for the app, if you want it for free then you share information with developer for advertisements.
Side note, just think about how much money goes into advertising each year. Google and Facebook are two of the largest companies in the country and they sustain themselves mostly through advertising. That's a lot of ads folks. Not to mention the TV networks, sports teams, etc. I had a friend who worked in the advertising industry and had a crazy conversation with him one night at a football game about how much stuff advertising pays for. We all hate it but it's not going away any time soon. I'm glad the tracking stuff has stopped but so much is dependent on advertising that it will eventually find a way to seep back in through the cracks. Our company tried to block all browser plugins as a security precaution. That lasted two days until some exec got sick of their ad blocker no longer working. Seriously, have you ever turned off your ad blocker and tried using anything on the Web? It's painful as hell. I'm glad that this disagreement turned out the way it did. Someone is fighting for us.
To be clear I have no issues with apps/companies tracking me - but ASK me first and make it opt-in, not opt-out
Let me make the decision, not the company
I want the option to block all ads and tracking, without exception.
And a giant FU to all those corrupt politicians who want to force Apple to allow side-loading. Preventing side-loading is not stifling competition. It is only anti-competitive if consumers do not have the choice to switch to a different brand. Nobody is forcing them to use Apple products.
And a giant FU to all those corrupt politicians who want to force Apple to allow side-loading. Preventing side-loading is not stifling competition. It is only anti-competitive if consumers do not have the choice to switch to a different brand. Nobody is forcing them to use Apple products.
He can manage a team, but I doubt he is capable of running Apple as a company.
So many behind the scenes happening at Apple!! Craig has done a wonderful job.
Heres the alternate version of the story.
Apple saw that an entire ecosystem was built around one of their technologies but Apple wasnt getting a cut out of that revenue stream. They couldnt figure out how to turn it into an Apple only revenue stream without being sued for anticompetitive behavior. So they decide to shut it down so that one day they can come back later with their own solution, claiming there is nothing else on the market quite like their solution which just so happens to make them more profits. The end.
Apple saw that an entire ecosystem was built around one of their technologies but Apple wasnt getting a cut out of that revenue stream. They couldnt figure out how to turn it into an Apple only revenue stream without being sued for anticompetitive behavior. So they decide to shut it down so that one day they can come back later with their own solution, claiming there is nothing else on the market quite like their solution which just so happens to make them more profits. The end.
The problem is that it can't be enforced technically, at least not fully. So it's really up to the app developer, with violations being a violation of the Apple TOS, so they risk their app getting pulled. Some parts can and are technically enforced, though, but the setting goes beyond that.
The old browser setting you mentioned was strictly non-enforced, on the other hand.
Working in the software industry and seeing some of the miserable horrors that go on, I can only tip my hat to Craig here. I spent the last 5 years fighting the same front on an enterprise line of business app which doesn’t even need user tracking and advertising installed in it. I am against 3 MBAs who ran ad stuffed web sites before they were hired as “best in class“ CXO and think that sales conversion rate is still important on a platform which has already been sold that they don’t sell any upsells for. It’s madness.
This shows yet again they are just a for profit company and they do things with profit in mind.
And they will sugar coat on why it was a toggle and can be default for all (forgot how they word it in an interview )
There is nothing wrong but hardcore fans don’t need to praise it coz not always gonna have ppl like Craig
And they will sugar coat on why it was a toggle and can be default for all (forgot how they word it in an interview )
There is nothing wrong but hardcore fans don’t need to praise it coz not always gonna have ppl like Craig
Exactly and just like any company. Any good deeds are for profit in mind
And it is fine. I just think it’s funny ppl LOVE the company so much they would defend at all cost
With all due respect you dont know anything about Tim Cook’s role in the creative process. You are making baseless assumptions. Now Steve micromanaged and knew what he liked, but how design savvy was he and how much did he rely on others to bring home the bacon.
One persons factual is another persons trolling.
Craig being head of engineering shines in this one and I personally liked how this was rolled out to everyone's satisfaction at the exec level. It's healthy to have debates on different approaches in the company because I like to say these are the types of things we put the chips on table and figure out how we are all going to win.
I do not blame you if you do not understand what goes on here.
Certain facts if said here result in post removal and more. Nothing to do with trolling.
Ah. Glad you realize that when posting nonsensical, hyperbole there is a limit. Not to worry, it’s possible even that last bit of nonsense can be removed.