By allowing users to pin threads in an application, Apple makes it easier to track conversation threads in messages.
Apple has the ability to send inline replies to specific messages displayed in the group chat conversation thread.
Due to its use of mobile device management (MDM), Apple removed or restricted many popular screen time and parental control applications on the App Store in early 2019, which the company claims puts user safety and privacy at risk.
Cook said that Apple has said many times that using mobile device management to allow parents to restrict children’s access to their devices puts data at risk. Cook said: “We are worried about the safety of the children.”
Cook’s statement is similar to what Apple said when deleting these apps: “These apps use corporate technology that allows them to access children’s highly sensitive personal data. We believe that no app can help data companies track or Tracking data. Optimize children’s ads.”
The congresswoman asked Cook a question about the Saudi Arabian government also using a specific application of MDM, but Cook said that he is not familiar with the application and he will have to provide more data in the future. When asked whether Apple has applied different rules to different application developers, Cook again stated that the rules apply to all developers.
Given that “Screen Time” was launched not long ago, Cook was asked about the time to delete the parental control application, and Cook avoided this problem to a large extent. He was asked why Phil Schiller would recommend customers who complained about removing parental control apps to Screen Time, but Cook cited more than 30 parental control apps in the “App Store” and said There is “stiff competition” in the parental control space. app Store.
When asked whether Apple has the right to exclude apps from the “App Store” or delete competing apps, Cook returned to what he said in his opening speech that “App Store” has a “gate”, referring to There are more than 1.7 million apps available. Cook said: “This is an economic miracle.” “We hope to get all the available applications on the ‌App Store‌.”
When asked about parental control apps, Cook was asked why Apple used the “App Store” in 2010 to encourage publisher Random House to participate in iBookstore, and Random House refused to do so. In a quoted document, Eddy Cue, the head of Apple’s iTunes, sent an email to Steve Jobs, saying that he “prevented the Random House app from launching in the “App Store” because of Apple’s purpose It is for Random House to agree to an overall transaction. Cook responded that there are many reasons why the application may not pass the approval process. He said: “It may not work properly. ”
The “mobile device management” used by the app is a feature designed specifically for business users to manage company-owned devices. Apple’s position is that the use of MDM for consumer-centric applications involves privacy and security issues, which have been mentioned in the App Store guidelines since 2017.
Apple ultimately did not provide an API, but finally decided to allow parental control app developers to use “mobile device management” for their apps, while using stricter privacy control measures to prevent them from selling, using or disclosing data to third parties. The application must also submit an MDM feature request to evaluate how the application will use MDM to prevent abuse and ensure that no data is shared. MDM requests are re-evaluated every year.
I live in Saudi Arabia and Absher does not use MDM, so technically his answer may be correct. Absher uses other mechanisms.
When asked about Absher last year, he said exactly the same thing. The strange thing is, after he said that he had studied the application last year, why hasn’t he heard of the application?
The congresswoman asked Cook a question about the Saudi Arabian government also using a specific application of MDM, but Cook said that he is not familiar with the application and he will have to provide more data in the future.
Has anyone discovered what this Saudi Arabian app is? It sounds like she chose the most obscure app to eliminate Tim.
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