Comment on Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App

• catty@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • Jaberw0cky@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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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      • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • catty@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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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      • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In the US it’s a very small majority.

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  • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not even close.

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  • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m not a developer or a genius but I’m pretty sure you can write an app once using a framework and then compile it for both android and ios.

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