Comment by threatofrain
4 years ago
I also don't want Apple approving apps which can essentially take over everything and eliminate all safety or privacy guarantees... but this developer is also saying that Apple has approved competitors of the same nature.
I don't know how accurate the fine details are, but this story in its broad outlines seems very unfair and capricious.
Competitors are allowed to capture screenshots randomly and send those screenshots to someone. The details are very similar. Interestingly enough, competitors don't end-to-end encrypt the data. Only I do that.
If there was some little tweak that was super important to Apple, I'd hope they'd let me know about it instead of being silent though. I'm willing to adjust based on their feedback, but they say nothing.
> I also don't want Apple approving apps which can essentially take over everything and eliminate all safety or privacy guarantees.
Unfortunately, it won't happen because that would mean Apple need to ban MDM software from the App Store. Thousands of thousands of companies using MDM and it won't be a good move for Apple if they attempt to do so. Apple could do it, but they will lose profits, money talks louder than doing for the goodwill.
MDM = mobile device management, in case you didn’t know like I didn’t.