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Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App (newrepublic.com)
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[+] -19 points 1 year ago (9 children)

apple is the majority of the market, no? so if e.g. a company wanted to get a product out for a client asap, apple would be the market to aim for.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Turn of your capitalism brain ffs. This is not the place for companies and markets. If there is a financial interest then the app is worthless by design. iOS is not a trustable platform for anything security related so obviously you shouldnt use it for anything that concerns your physical safety. Dont forget, apple will always bend the knee to governments in the end.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don't know, don't Apple have a reasonable track record of pushing back against governments? I personally have even less faith in the security of android based devices or Android phone manufacturers.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago*

    Apple have a reasonable track record of pushing back against governments

    Only when it comes to individual consumer cases like terrorists or other crimes. When it comes to large scale political movements then they are very quick to lend authoritarian governments a hand, see for example their cooperation with the CCP to suppress the Hong Kong protests. But they have also always cooperated with police to some degree and this has only gotten worse.

    Forbes for the lack of a better source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2024/10/09/apple-sells-privacy-to-consumers-but-its-quietly-helping-police-use-iphones-for-surveillance/

    There’s a widespread perception that Apple has a combative relationship with law enforcement after the company refused to help the FBI hack into the iPhone of the shooter in the 2015 San Bernardino terrorist attacks. But since then, it has ramped up collaboration with police through the conference and other meetings with agencies at both Cupertino HQ and its Elk Grove campus, as well as a variety of previously unreported projects helping cops use iPhones, Macs, Apple Vision Pro and CarPlay, the emails show. Most of these projects have not been announced publicly.

    Apple declined to comment.

    People just love believing in Apple for some weird reasons.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    You see "market" and think capitalism. By market, I meant, market-share. More users of apple products than android. So if a developer wanted greater reach...

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Android has the greatest mobile OS market share by a massive margin.

    But Apple users are far more likely to spend money on apps, making Apple the most lucrative target for mobile developers to target first.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Android has the greatest mobile OS market share by a massive margin.

    It’s my understanding this is true globally, but not for the US, where Apple has ~60% share.

    (This app should absolutely be cross-platform though)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    im not a developer or a genius but I'm pretty sure you can write an app once using a framework like react native or whatever and then compile it for both android and ios and optionally release them along with the source code used to compile them

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