[MBCook]

There’s a second set of rules for mega popular apps. Always has been. FB should have been permanently banned 15 years ago.

If you’re important enough Apple will let you get away with murder compared to normal devs. Users don’t buy phones without FB, Instagram, Spotify, WhatsApp, Google apps, etc.

There is only one time I remember anything happening to a big app. Fortnite probably could have tracked people for years. But the they took away Apple’s cut and publicly stuck a thumb in Apple’s eye at the same time. So they got booted.

[refulgentis]

15 years ago apple was proudly announcing they were integrating Facebook accounts into iPhone OS and making their APIs available to apps, to thumb their nose at Google. (iPhone OS 4, IIRC)

That's part of why Facebook felt rightfully indignant when Apple moved to kneecap attribution and acted like it had never heard of it