ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it
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There is not and it is due to privacy implications. You can read more on their site about it and ALSO, there are fake Android apps of this that they caution you to not install. As of now, there is no Android version and unlikely unless Android fixes the way notifications work to not have any account or privacy issues for such an app.
Incompetence is not a "privacy implication". You think Apple servers are beyond reach of US warrants?
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they probably want to also make it as easy as possible for those who aren't technologically savvy or whose native language isn't english, though
Then don't claim the reasoning is anonymity.
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No, they are saying that Android and Apple both have a privacy issue on the same level.
It's not on the same level. Android at least provides the option of using an alternative notification system, and also supports downloading apps from anywhere. Including places that don't require an account.
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She said that there's been a 500 percent increase against ICE agents who are just "trying to do their jobs and remove public safety threats from... communities."
Exactly what the Nazis who ran extermination camps claimed.
It's so blatant as if theyre using an instruction manual or something
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Glad others have pointed this out. Their "reasons" for not supporting 70% of worldwide smartphones via Android seemed very suspect.
not defending the dev here, but iOS is the majority in the US, why would worldwide market share be relevant for a US app?
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ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it
The application, which allows users to add a pin on a map to show where ICE agents have recently been spotted, has climbed to the to the top of the App Store charts.
Engadget (www.engadget.com)
Is it only available in the US App Store? I can imagine that some people who could make good use of it don’t have a US Apple ID.
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not defending the dev here, but iOS is the majority in the US, why would worldwide market share be relevant for a US app?
Because visitors to the US don't tend to be from the US, that's only logical
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Glad others have pointed this out. Their "reasons" for not supporting 70% of worldwide smartphones via Android seemed very suspect.
I think he thinks HE had to store the information, and if he isn't the one storing it, it's anonymous.
Except, on Android, you can also do it where only google stores the information and he doesn't have to store any. And there are no user name or passwords or accounts involved to listen to specific channels like he claims.
You can collect this information, and you'd be able to write a more custom push service, but it isn't needed at all, but Google and Apple will always know who is getting the messages.
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Lol, called it.
Incompetence and false bravado is all but guaranteed with development teams. Especially when it's closed source, not audited, and has minimal room for feedback loops.
You don't even need to audit a closed source app to know that Apple knows which devices its sending pushes to. It works because they know.
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Maybe they want that, but the statement on their website is not wrong on a technicality because it's oversimplified; it's wrong because it asserts a privacy difference between the two operating systems that does not exist.
It's actually not possible to build a push service like FCM or APNS on Android and have it function at the same level as FCM. FCM has special permissions to bypass certain device states on the device to ensure message delivery that nothing else can match.
The best you can do is approximate it with an always active websocket and a foreground service always running with battery optimizations disabled, but good luck not having that foreground service shut down on occasion as well. Devices are hostile to them for battery saving purposes. You'd have the best luck with a Pixel device though for something like that. You could also do some sort of scheduled background polling, but the device can be hostile to that as well, and it would eat more battery.
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Obvious troll is obvious
I don't think everybody who makes a bad claim is a troll. A lot of people just are that stupid.
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