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Google does not operate in mainland China.

I’m disappointed to see such nonsense on HN not flagged to death. Is this a troll comment that I’m too slow to get?

Seems like a story they spun with cherry-picked data to justify the removal of the dislike count.

This seems like a disingenuous whataboutism. You are free to not use Steam as a publisher. You can use Epic/GOG or choose to self-host. The biggest advantage of Steam is the convenience of payments, marketing and infrastructure. If that is not an attractive option for you, you can skip it. This option is not available for iOS at all and is quite limited on Android.

So what? When you don’t trust the actors running the system, it doesn’t matter if the crypto is perfect.

And right now, I don’t trust the maintainers of the CSAM database and Apple to do the right thing.

This happens in North Indian states as well where the state governments have gotten extremely trigger happy with cutting off internet access for trivial reasons like student exams. It’s extremely frustrating and makes me wonder how people keep voting the same morons (I’m sorry but I do not have a charitable word for them) back into power.

> it would be a cesspool like the Google play store

I would suggest you use an Android smartphone from the last 5 years before making a comment like this.

I use both iOS and Android devices on a regular basis and both the App Store and Play Store are cesspools. I would go even further and say that the App Store is more obnoxious in that it serves me a half page ad whenever I search for an app.

At least on Android, I have the choice to not use the Play Store. That is not even possible when I use iOS.

Thanks, that makes sense. Eventually, it does come down to trust then. I was under the impression that there was a technical reason as to why Amazon Sidewalk is worse than Find My.

I don't own an Amazon smart device and I don't think I ever will so I cannot comment on whether there is actually a need for a feature like Sidewalk.

Find My is also opt-out instead of opt-in

Are there any indications that the Sidewalk network can be used to relay other than device control information?

Can you please explain how Apple’s Find My is anonymous while Sidewalk is not? As far as I understand, Find My collects device location information through other iPhones and then upload them to Apple’s cloud where it can be viewed by you. Apple states that this is done in a privacy preserving way by using rotating identifiers. In the case of Amazon, they state that all the device information being relayed through your device is encrypted and capped at 80kbps.

I am not sure I understand why one is a concern while the other isn’t.

Can someone explain why there’s so much outrage against Amazon Sidewalk when it’s doing a similar thing to Apple’s Find My/AirTags which was met with almost universal praise?

Apple does this as well on iOS where certain stock apps like Books always open links in Safari even when you have a different default browser set.

>And if side-loading was alowed then every big player whose app users "have to have", e.g. Google, Facebook, Abobe, Zoom, Epic, would start their own independent app store (or distribution just for their apps).

>Users would have no recourse than to install the app for there (or do without Facebook or Zoom etc).

We are already aware of a platform that allows easy sideloading - Android. And most apps on Android are distribured through the Play Store. All "big" players still go through the Play Store.

When there is no such thing as the examples you described going on in Android, why do you expect iOS to be different?