Apparently this is how Apple "stymie industry-standard practices":
Now, from what I can tell, the first part of that story is true – Google and many others have figured out ways to get around Apple’s default settings on Safari in iOS – the only browser that comes with iOS, a browser that, in my experience, has never asked me what kind of privacy settings I wanted, nor did it ask if I wanted to share my data with anyone else (I do, it turns out, for any number of perfectly good reasons). Apple assumes that I agree with Apple’s point of view on “privacy,” which, I must say, is ridiculous on its face, because the idea of a large corporation (Apple is the largest, in fact) determining in advance what I might want to do with my data is pretty much the opposite of “privacy.”
Then again, Apple decided I hated Flash, too, so I shouldn’t be that surprised, right?
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I don’t know, but when I bought an iPhone, I didn’t think I was singing up as an active recruit in Apple’s war on the open web. I just thought I was getting “the Internet in my pocket” – which was Apple’s initial marketing pitch for the device. What I didn’t realize was that it was “the Internet, as Apple wishes to understand it, in my pocket.”
Does not make any sense to me. First the author claim that Apple should have actively asked him do define the security settings and because it did not Apple is somehow evil. No operating system ever can actively ask their users to set up everything to a microscopic level, there has to be a default somewhere. It would take days to get through all the settings on my computer. I would say "fuck this" after fifteen minutes of configuring panels where I left almost everything set to the default anyway.
How could Apple agree with your stance on privacy unless you tell Apple your privacy wishes? The author seems to be well versed in computers and smartphones, I am sure he could figure out how to tell Apple how his privacy should be managed.
Then he somehow thinks Flash is an industry standard. This is what Apple allows to run in mobile Safari and disallowing non-standard (arguably proprietary) third party extensions is not really how you stymie industry-standard practices.
