38 posts tagged ‘App Store’
Apple Quashes Beeper Mini App to Lord Over the Blue Bubbles
Gizmodo,
Apple isn’t keen to let just any peasant enter its hallowed and gloried domain of iMessage. The company officially declared it had blocked the Beeper Mini app, which let Android users send blue bubble messages to their friends and family on iPhone by reverse engineering the iMessage protocol. Read more...
Privacy Manifests Update
mjtsai,
Apple: Starting in spring 2024, if your new app or app update submission adds a third-party SDK that is commonly used in apps on the App Store, you’ll need to include the privacy manifest for the SDK. Signatures are also required when the SDK is used as a binary dependency. […] Based on the feedback we […]
Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users
Tim Hardwick (Hacker News): Senator Ron Wyden said foreign officials were demanding the data from the tech giants to track smartphones. The traffic flowing from apps that send push notifications put the companies “in a unique position to facilitate government surveillance of how users are using particular apps,” Wyden said.[…]In a statement given to Reuters, […]
Apple’s Three Safaris
Thomas Claburn (via Hacker News): Apple tried to avoid regulation in the European Union by making a surprising claim – that it offers not one but three distinct web browsers, all coincidentally named Safari.Never mind that Apple itself advertises the sameness of its Safari browsers when pitching its Continuity feature: “Same Safari. Different device.”Cupertino also […]
Improper App Store Contact With Developers
Wayne Ma: Apple fired at least five employees who worked in the company’s App Store in China following an internal probe into business misconduct, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation. Juli Clover: App Store employees with review and editorial roles are not supposed to meet with developers, but an internal audit raised […]
Apple Adopts Tighter Chinese App Store Rules
Tim Hardwick: Apple has started requiring new apps to show proof of a Chinese government license in order to be listed on the China App Store, as the company joins rival app stores that adopted the policy years earlier to meet tightening state regulations (via Reuters). […] To get the license, developers must have a […]