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chasm said:

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multimedia said:

I don’t understand which choice to make in privacy to protect my data from advertisers. Can someone tell me which choice is the private one please?

With the option in Privacy/Tracking turned OFF, no apps will be allowed to track you and won't ask.
With the option turned on, apps that track you will ask your permission.

That's how it's supposed to work, yet I haven't found an app that has asked me yet.

UPDATE: If you want apps to ask your permission to track, turn “Allow Apps to Request to Track” ON, not off.

NEW app installs or future updates will ask you if they can track, and you can say no if you want. CURRENT tracking status of apps is as it was before 14.5.

(Edited to remove incorrect information)

Zirlin said:

Billions of dollars in R&D money and Apple still can't figure out that we all want the MacOS on the iPad Pro. SMH!

dysamoria said:

I have absolutely taken notice of Apple’s packaging, when I buy new Apple products. It’s beautiful, and it’s also egregiously wasteful of materials. I don’t throw it away, either. When I pass the device on to someone else later in its lifespan, the box goes with it.

To this day, Apple refuses to use post-consumer recycled materials in their packaging. They act like their claim of “responsibly sourced” paper is meaningful. It means nothing more than greenwashing. “Carbon neutrality” is an insufficient goal, and it is, in many cases, already just a lie. This doesn’t even cover the unnecessary use of plastic film where reusable twist ties could be used, or just more recycled paper.

Just like religions, taking something as “sacred” tends to cause people not to question it. Apple needs to stop acting like their packaging is sacred. It’s not. It’s offensive.

fred1 said:

I’m old enough to remember capitalism in the US. I mean when a company could produce something and compete against others. Has anyone on the Judiciary Committee heard of the Android OS?

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darkvader said:

Once again, Apple's illegal abuse of their monopoly on app installation rears its ugly head.

As with the Epic case, the solution is obvious.  It's past time for Apple's unlawful app store monopoly to be broken.

If you want to remain within Apple's walled garden for all the apps you install on your iPhone, that's absolutely your right.  But Apple is abusing their app store monopoly to force everyone with an iDevice into that walled garden, and that is an abuse of their monopoly.

It's past time for governments to step in and force Apple to allow users to load apps from any source of their choosing.

If you don’t want the walled garden you have the choice to buy a different device. 

Breaking the App Store would break the entire system. Particularly for the bigger developers, if they can opt out, they will, and with them will go the security and quality protections that the walled garden creates. 

I chose iOS devices specifically because I want that system. Breaking that system doesn’t enhance consumer choice. You already have the option to get your open system by buying an android device, so you gain nothing by forcing it on iOS.  On the other hand, I would lose my choice, because you’ve broken and taken away the option that I wanted. 

So no, it’s not “past time” for you to use governments to take away the thing I want just so you can make it into the same lousy crap as the competitor I didn’t want. 

Almost everything you typed is completely absurd.  You wouldn't lose your choice to use Apple's infrastructure.  You could easily choose to only use apps that rely on Apple.  If an app decides to do their own back end processing, what facts are you relying on to claim security and quality would suffer?  You choose iOS devices because you want that system.  Nothing has to change for you.  Continue doing what you do.  For others, they gain options.  If some app you like chooses to forego Apple's processing, then you forego the app.  For every app in the App Store there are probably dozens of others that do the same function.  Pretty simple.  To maintain an "I don't like it therefore it shouldn't exist" attitude seems a bit shortsighted and self centered.