No point going the distance as the company will keep finding new ways to track you. They infact already do as Uber tracks your location for 5 minutes after your ride has ended and for some people found they were being tracked for even weeks on end.Your argument makes absolutely no sense.
That Tim Cook is willing to personally step in shows that he does have the interests of his users in mind. At the end of the day, Uber removed the offending feature from their app and that's what matters. I am willing to wait and see if anyone at google is willing to go the distance, but I won't be holding my breath. I won't be surprised if the android uber app is somehow a worse offender in this regard.
I think the narrative here is very interesting. That people are alarmed and concerned that this could happen on ios shows how much regard people have for iOS's security. That nobody raises the red flag with regards to android goes to show that people have seemingly accepted that android is full of bugs and teeming with this sort of shenanigans, to the point that this is considered expected and normal.
Had Tim Cook removed the app they wouldnt have dared trying again.
And yet they removed the option to track my location while I use the app and only set it to "Never" or "Always" and Apple didnt do a thingIn short, I trust Apple to look out for me, the user, in this regard more so than Google ever will.
If he had removed the app from the store, Uber wouldnt have dared to risk it again but now they will and for all we know haveActually I'm confident Jobs wouldn't have done anything. But we can ARGUE that point till the cows come home. Good for cook delicately handling a situation that turned out to be a win-win for both sides.
Uber is already tracking you if your app is on the phone. More or less on each OS doesnt make a difference. You are being tracked along with your device. The only reason I use it is because I just find their app and service better then the competition.So you admit the shady practices happen on android, but don't really know if they happen on iOS. It seems Apple employees figure it out and unlike android care for their customers privacy.
They were also using private APIs to pull this stunt. We dont know if that was possible on Android