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by sparselogic 916 days ago
Some smoothly disingenuous rhetoric going on there.

WRT FaceTime - turns out video calling had patent encumbrances. Apple was sued for massive amounts as soon as they rolled out FaceTime on their own devices. The VirNetX saga just wrapped up earlier this year. [0]

And Apple has opened up their Find My Network. [1] Other trackers, such as Chipolo, are making use of it. [2] Also, Apple and Google just today published the latest revision of a cross-platform spec to detect unwanted location trackers regardless of which network you’re using. [3]

[0] https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/apple-wins-reversal-of-...

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/04/apples-find-my-networ...

[2] https://chipolo.net/en-us/products/category/chipolo-spot

[3] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-detecting-unwanted-lo...