[throwaway810]

> Clearly nobody at Apple or Google working on these kinds of features is a parent.

That’s highly unlikely given the number of people working there.

Clearly you haven’t done professional software development before. There are so many big misses.

[resters]

The misses I’m referring to are fundamental product management blind spots. One doesn’t see this kind of thing when those designing the product have any familiarity with the use cases involved.

It’s as if they designed a food delivery app and forgot to let the user enter the delivery address.

[throwaway810]

The kind of changes that Screen Time requires spans the entire platform, which means that it can only be developed incrementally. It’s inevitably going to take years before all the “obvious” loopholes are closed, but it’s not because of some design flaw on Apple’s part.

[resters]

Not true. The misses are due to the perverse incentives and myopia created by both companies’ monetization strategies. For instance, a child must have an iCloud or gmail account to use the parental control features of each platform, and iOS users can’t whitelist content for YouTube kids except by taking the kid’s device.

YouTube kids is a load of algorithmic content farm generated garbage. There is no trust based system for ranking content by quality (pagerank anyone?). Apple parental control is category specific, limits cannot be set for individual apps, nor can ad hoc categories be created.

Netflix has the same perverse incentives that default to the most addictive, garbage content and no whitelist option. Totally irresponsible and greed driven.

All three companies are dragging their feet, it is hard to tell if it’s due to greed, negligence or both.

Sadly, Amazon is the market leader in 2019 for kid friendly content and parental control options.