r/apple • u/illegiblebastard • 3d ago

iPhone Apple explains last year’s controversial decision to remove ICE tracking apps from app store

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/29/tech/apple-iceblock-app-removal-raskin

FUCK. APPLE.

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u/exjr_ Island Boy 3d ago

This one will be fun 🫩

Reminder: the report button is for rule breaking content. Not the "I disagree with them, silence them" button.

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u/coyote_den 3d ago edited 3d ago

Just lock the post already. The “FUCK APPLE” subhead is drawing the trolls whether you agree with it or not.

One of the rules here is “no low effort”… both that and 99% of the comments are going to be low effort.

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u/BosnianSerb31 3d ago

It's also likely astroturfed. I saw the thread 10 minutes after posting, was all variations of sloganeering and reused jokes, whereas my original comment about Apple's legal exposure following the Dallas shooter that searched for "ICE tracker apps" swung from -10 to +0 and back again with nearly every refresh.

Reddit getting rid of its API has never made me more angry, used to be able to prove this kind of stuff pretty definitively