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Rob Napier Jun 25, 2025

When I received that F1 ad yesterday, it flipped a bit for me. I’ve always known Apple is arrogant and often hurtful to us as outside devs, but as a user, I’ve generally trusted them on privacy.

The reason is that I saw their business model as allowing, even encouraging, good behavior (something not true of Google or Meta).

Since that unsolicited push ad from Wallet, I can no longer give them the benefit of the doubt on stuff like this. A week ago I did.
https://mastodon.social/@mjtsai/114746101699524956

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Rob Napier Jun 25, 2025

I’m well aware of the cynicism of “what did you expect of a giant corp, they’re all exactly the same and always only do everything evil.”

But that’s not actually true. Companies are made of people. And people ultimately decide what to do. And companies have different cultures, and not everything is always acceptable. People really do stop bad behaviors when the culture allows it. Often.

But once a company builds its business on stuff like this, good people are rarely enough to stop it.

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⁂ Fish Id Wardrobe

@cocoaphony yes, although I think this is what I would call the "not all men" argument.

It's absolutely true that not all men are predatory arseholes. But the precautionary principle says there are circumstances where you should assume a given man is one, unless and until you learn otherwise.

Now swap "man" for "corporation".