Comment by camhart
4 years ago
Put on the hat of the end user. Keep in mind the end user is a child, or someone struggling with an online addiction/behavior they want to quit. They welcome the app, but those issues are somewhat personal. There's a balancing act I'm trying to walk here, of being reasonably suspicious while also not publishing for everyone who peeks over their shoulder that they're using an app like this.
Again, if the red dot matters, I'll add it back.
> Put on the hat of the end user. Keep in mind the end user is a child, or someone struggling with an online addiction/behavior they want to quit. They welcome the app, but those issues are somewhat personal.
This sure as hell reads to me like you’re trying to hide the fact that you’re recording vulnerable user’s screens from them.
You can read into it however you want. It wasn't my intention.
So you did the same thing, without trying?
The “trying” part isn’t the practical problem.
And if that was not your intent, you are not thinking through the obvious implications of your own software design.
You seem to be sticking a hood over your eyes and pretending that your app is only used for the most morally sound use cases you can think of. You've written something that enables abusive relationships and helicopter parenting and you should be ashamed.
Please keep this kind of emotionally-manipulative, anti-intellectual flamebait off of HN.
Apple's reasonable concern here might be that the end user isn't a child, or even someone who consents to have the application running.