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hammeroftruth said:

launfall said:

Good luck, Tim, when you're sitting in the witness chair during the Epic Games lawsuit explaining how you can justify your walled garden when it is so full of weeds you make money off of. And why, after being notified of bad apps they are still available in your store. Apple needs the app equivalent of Round-Up!

I agree that Apple needs a crew to clean up the App Store, I don’t think that this helps Epic’s breach of contract with them. Epic has to prove they were harmed and their actions are justified after being harmed, which is going to be hard to prove, even after deposing all of the Apple execs they want to. 

The bottom line for the case is, why did you agree to the terms if you felt you were unfairly treated, and why didn’t you terminate the agreement and sue instead of violating the agreement and get thrown out of the App Store and then sue?

just because you feel like you are getting screwed does not give you the right to violate the agreement and change the terms unilaterally. If it did we would have millions of cases flooding the legal system. 

Peza said:

Whilst I think personally that Zuckerberg would quite literally sell your soul for profit if he could get it, I think Apple is just about THE most hypocritical company on the planet when it comes to criticising them over ‘privacy’. 

They publicly criticised Google and Amazon for listening to recordings captured from their devices to improve their AI services, of which Amazon I know warned you off, only for it to be leaked Apple had been doing the EXACT same thing without telling anyone, with Siri hearing everything you say without your knowledge. 

They also had such weak security that simple hacking methods gained easy access to people’s personal photos.

And I’m sure there are other examples, I am in no way going to defend Facebooks privacy policies, but Apple seriously needs to get of this privacy elite trip, because it’s frankly embarrassing to see them falsely portray themselves as the saviours of privacy when they have guilt all over their hands of treating it with disrespect themselves.

Oh and let’s not forget they fully support, for profit, endless free apps that mine data from their users on a daily basis, that’s then all sold on for profit. This interview is as true today as it was when written:

http://toucharcade.com/2015/09/16/we-own-you-confessions-of-a-free-to-play-producer/

I highly recommend ‘Tim Cook’ stops with the virtue signalling and hypocrisy, and gets back to his day job and making new devices, such as launching those new iMac designs, it would be nice to refresh a design that’s 10 plus years old and is incredibly stale... which is what Apples privacy virtue signalling is fast becoming...

CheeseFreeze said:

It’s a tough balance. Apple here is doing this for consumer privacy reasons, however on a corporate level it’s also a strategy to weaken competition or at least influence them heavily out of self-interest. It’s a slippery slope.
 
And it’s also one more example of how they are using their market dominance to decide what is acceptable and not (hence anti-trust cases).
Lastly, Apple has proven to be hypocrites themselves when dealing with China and Russia where they gladly bend their own rules and values to sell more products and services. They want to have it both ways.

So although I like what they do out of personal interest (consumer privacy), on a corporate level I am concerned about this behavior, because there is more to it than we consumers realize.