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Quite the leap with 'mental health abnormalities', perhaps this is in reference to stress response (which breathing exercises can help) or to blood oxygenation, which does have some correlation with stress and anxiety.

If you think this is controversial, read on...

The process of disclosing security flaws is well outlined and nothing new - one is hearing about these because this is an Apple-related news site. Similar disclosures occur for a range of other platforms, including their own:

If you like, here is Apple's own disclosure of the same bugs, these were disclosed well before ZDnet's article:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210918

While the research demonstrates a current real world issue on a popular app, the fact that it's Tiktok makes the issue a bit redundant. Tiktok already has an incurable laundry list of issues that extend well beyond technical vulnerabilities. One is just as likely to be served stated-sanctioned propaganda through its legitimate channels, before needing to worry about a complex hijacking of content.

j2fusion said:

This makes sense as Apple doesn’t handle the transaction. I think Apple should expand the program to other services such as Spotify. As long as they do the billing and Apple is not involved in the financial transaction, Apple is not losing anything. Doing this may help Apple with the EU blunting their investigation into Apple's supposed anticompetitive behavior. 

"Expand the program"
This isn't a new service from Apple, and Amazon aren't the first to use this approach - the problem with Spotify is that they don't offer a comparable service.

Before Spotify decided to throw their toys out of the cot, the below was available:
- If a customer signed up to Spotify inside the iOS app, then Apple handled the transaction and got their 30%->15% cut after one year.
- If a customer signed up to Spotify from the Spotify website, then Apple got nothing.

Now:
- Spotify have removed the ability to sign up for Spotify inside the iOS app.
- Spotify don't have any additional products that are sold through their subscription, thus there is no equivalent to Amazon Video's individual video sales that would make for a good comparison.


The thing of importance to note here is that Apple haven't changed any of their rules. For all of this time it's only been Amazon and Spotify which did not want to give Apple a cut, under any circumstances, and thus removed the in-app purchase ability. Amazon continues to prevent in-app purchases with their other media services.

Sloppiness is a disease that rots a company from the inside out.
You can't hope to maintain quality throughout your organisation if you let it slip in any single part of the business. It's a perfectly natural thought to ask yourself "Why should I try hard if my peers aren't"