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by matwood 2556 days ago
This story has been repeated time and again. There is even a term, 'getting Sherlocked'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_(software)#Sherlocked...
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shkkmo 2556 days ago
The damning part to me is not so much that Apple copied it, but that they copied it, then removed their competitor from the app store.
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woadwarrior01 2556 days ago
It was removed as a part of a general thrust towards removing shady VPN apps. Onavo the VPN app that’s mentioned in the post was also removed from the App Store around the same time. The article is trying to spin the narrative of a causal connection between Apple removing their app from the App Store and then introducing the same feature in iOS, but that doesn’t seem to be the true.
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rhinoceraptor 2556 days ago
Put a different way, they temporarily allowed this horrifically implemented app until they had a first party solution which wasn't a privacy dumpster-fire.
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busymom0 2556 days ago
They were breaking the app store guidelines too of not using MDM profiles for consumer apps. Same reason Facebook got their MDM profiles revoked too.
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