[djfdat]

The Apple Camera app comes preinstalled with no warnings or permission requests notifying me why it's requesting camera access.

[jimmaswell]

Remember when MS was sued by the DoJ for bundling IE? And they didn't even block Netscape or put onerous requirements on third party software developers? What a different time.

[rs_rs_rs_rs_rs]

Come on, this is a ridiculous point and makes no sense.

[djfdat]

It's a comment on their monopoly position and how they can make it difficult at any point for a third party to run their business/app. Apple doesn't need to jump through these hurdles, but they can be placed in front of anyone else randomly, disrupting their business and income and at the very least, creating a worse user experience for those apps.

The article states that the alert had to be changed from:

"The camera will be used to take photographs"

to

"The camera will be used to take photographs for the app that you just downloaded to take photographs for."

"Spotify, why would you like to play audio? Please notify the users that you are using the speakers to play the audio for the app they just downloaded to play audio."

If they make using third party apps a little more scary, a little more dense, consistently, people will slowly gravitate to Apple's first party apps. You can see a similar pattern for MacOS where more and more restrictions are added to opening apps downloaded from outside the App Store.

[xtracto]

It is ridiculous right? Which is why the fact that Apple is rejecting the app is also ridiculous.

[exe34]

Maybe for Apple - but there's crap running on my lineage phone I've not had the courage to look up. I just generally hope the firewall is working and only the apps I actually want to connect to the internet are able to do so.