Isn't apple privacy policy bad for developers too?

Apple is too bad
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Y tho?

If your product requires you to gather lots of customer data without the customer knowing....whose fault is that?

Nope, change you're fucking business model and stop trading user data.

How?

I dunno. I way going like this. No data to target users, business invest less money on ad. They earn less, we get paid less.

@minsomai that's good, because ad business should vanish into oblivion. It's an unholy business of legalized deception and fraud.

It is only bad for devs who sell customer data (or sell ad placements selected by using that data).

And actually, it isn't really about privacy. It is about Apple getting their share of any profit generated by an app. Devs avoided the Apple tax by giving the app away for free and then selling ad placements to some ad network.
Apple wants that tax avoidance to stop. As they literally have a monopoly in the iOS appstore provider market, they can just outlaw the collection of the user data required by all current ad networks.
That way, they get more of the dev revenues while also getting good press for the privacy enforcement.
But full outlawing isn't even neccessary. Just outlawing not getting informed consent before collection of the data is enough as people in general seem to do actually care about privacy when having an actual choice...

Hoping for Epic to slap them hard with the ongoing lawsuit.

@Oktokolo But in reality it's just another illusion of choice, since Apple just wants to monopolize your data.

@Awlex choice is never an option

@Awlex
The funny thing about Apple's business model is, that it works without your data. They don't need to perform advanced advertisers'-arse-licking to rake the most insane profits from their target group.
They actually can just kill the ad industry on their platform without losing much.
And doing so not only gives good market reception but also makes their premium-taxed payment system the only allowed source of revenue for apps on their platform...

It sometimes happens, that doing the right thing for the customer also by coincidence fits the business model.
This is one of these cases.

@Awlex
P.S.:
That they don't need your data obviously doesn't mean, that they won't take it.
But they probably only use it for making their golden cage more attractive for the majority of their customers (which in Apple's case actually are the ones buying the devices).
Giving it away to other parties would rob them of one of their current unique selling points.

@Oktokolo Even then, apple is still not your friend by a long shot https://mobile.twitter.com/ringo_ri...

@Awlex
Nice strawman - let's burn it.