https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1597300125243944961
they've been in violation of gdpr for several weeks, so apple is probably legally required to delist them
It's probably easier to just turn it off for everyone, just like it's easier to show the cookies warning to all users than it is trying to ensure you ask only people to whom GDPR would apply.
wouldn't want to risk euro vpn users being able to install it
tweeting about it is definitely a great idea, especially when companies have dedicated employees if not groups of them whose job is to navigate Apple's App Store bureaucracy
At this point it makes a lot more sense to see this as Musk doing a controlled demolition
"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."
"On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects"
it's insane how any of this matters to anyone, fuck twitter fuck apple fuck elon fuck smartphones fuck apps
I was actually a little curious whether any "app store" maintainers would scrutinize updates to Twitter's app post-takeover.
There's been enough reports about an apparent lack of trust with regard to their own internal source code repos and what gets committed...
Not that Apple/Google/etc care if someone pushes a buggy update, but I can't think of a better opportunity in recent memory for someone with access to their supply chain to bundle an exploit on a malicious update to what I'd assume is one of the most widely installed apps. Especially with the prevalence of mobile crypto wallets and shit.
I can’t think of a better opportunity in recent memory for someone with access to their supply chain to bundle an exploit on a malicious update to what I’d assume is one of the most widely installed apps. Especially with the prevalence of mobile crypto wallets and shit.
I wonder if this is just Elon's end game
I guess he can just pull himself up by his bootstraps and get a bunch of other people to build a "MuskPhone".
Don't make me give critical support to apple's bullshit walled garden...
Businesses competing with each other leaves them in a weaker state than a trust or a monopoly
This kind of "competition" is exactly how these trusts and monopolies form. Facebook and Apple partner to hedge Twitter out of the market. Then the number of competitors drops by one and monopoly is that much easier to cement.
Wall garden is good especially when state owned and all profits are given back to employees.
if the app gets pulled then within minutes people will be selling iPhones with Twitter pre-loaded for stupid prices, Flappy Bird-style
I wish I had that kind of motivation to grift
I hate the word app. Does anyone remember prior to smartphones when all of these things were called programs? App is just short for application. Everyone just uses this cutesy short form, which was already used for food, by the way, and nobody else seems bothered by this.
I guess I'm too young to have ever heard app used for appetizer or anything else
Sometimes people also said appy, which was a bit too much. "Want to split an appy?"
It's nuts. I just heard a relative use app to mean appetizers for the first time in my life. Just hours after reading this comment
