Apple and Google blocked downloads of phone apps that flag sightings of U.S. immigration agents, just hours after the Trump administration demanded that one particularly popular iPhone app be taken down.
The point still stands that for 17 of the 18 years that modern ‘Smart Phones’ have been a thing, locked down, data mining apps have been pushed as the default.
Though even Apple were pushing html5 web apps at the time and didn’t initially allow 3rd-party apps. The app store later launched on July 10, 2008.
The point still stands that for 17 of the 18 years that modern ‘Smart Phones’ have been a thing, locked down, data mining apps have been pushed as the default.