[scarface74]

I don’t care how much it was generating. It was a severe invasion of privacy. If that’s how they made their money, nothing of value was lost.

[Jack000]

It's an invasion of privacy if the tracking is unsolicited. It's not an invasion of privacy if the tracking is the point of the app.

The app had paying users, it clearly had value to some people.

[rhinoceraptor]

The average user will not understand the implications of the tracking. And even if the tracking is benevolent today, who's to say that won't change when the company is acquired in six months?

[scarface74]

See Onava.

[em-bee]

then it should have never been allowed in the first place

[scarface74]

So Apple should have thought of every possible rule when the App Store opened in mid 2008?

[em-bee]

well no, but the removal of permissions could come with some warning so that developers have time to adapt and find other ways to solve the problem. if the developers would have known ahead of time they would have been able to invest their efforts into other directions.