[namesbc]

This type of app would have been possible to build without a VPN on any other OS. Apple has chosen to make it difficult for anyone other than themselves to build such apps.

This is an abuse of market position in one market to expand in another, and has a long term negative effect on the health of the industry if only the large players that own the ecosystem can profit from it.

[scarface74]

So you’re okay with all of your personal information going through a third party whose explicit aim is to monetize the analytics?

[rhinoceraptor]

Do you really want 3rd party developers to be able to write apps that can introspect all other apps running on a phone?

[lacker]

Yes. "top" and "ps" are pretty useful tools.

[rhinoceraptor]

Those are developer tools, so of course they need to do things you would never want Slack to do, for example. Also, Apple themselves ported Dtrace to MacOS. If you want the ultimate computing surveillance tool, Dtrace is a good bet.

[kstrauser]

Sandboxing apps (and implementing other strong security mechanisms) is not an abuse of market position.