Comment by ASalazarMX
14 hours ago
I don't know what Apple is looking for. The iPhone ships with a Weather app preinstalled, you allow it to your location so it can warn of severe weather, and several weeks later "OMG WEATHER APP IS USING YOUR LOCATION!!11!".
Same with MDM agents. Ours are installed automatically as part of the Apple Business Manager configuration, we manually grant them precise location in the background, and months later "HEY USER, WANNA BLOCK LOCATION FROM 'MDM SERVICE'?".
Edit: To avoid replying to the two following comments with the same reply, my gripe is not about the notification, that's a good thing; my gripe is with their implementation, which seems very in tune with Apple's way of complying with regulations. There are definitely many user-friendly ways to handle privacy compared to seemingly random notifications.
The first scenario is due to anti-trust complaints forcing Apple to treat their pre-installed apps identically to third-party ones. (Also why you can "delete" system apps.)
Doubly annoying as it asks for the widget separately.
So many smart people and yet such a stupid timeline. Usability psychology is well documented.
That was due to antitrust pressure such that they did not self-prefer their own apps.
You'd think that would force them to make the third party app experience as good as the first party app experience. Instead, they did the opposite...
Seems like this is a signal that they in fact take the privacy concerns seriously?
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