From “Facebook Wades Into ‘Fortnite’ Maker’s Dispute With Apple” ($) in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal:
Facebook said it would assist the company behind the popular videogame “Fortnite” in its high-profile legal battle withApple Inc., AAPL -0.05% as the social-media giant ramps up its own counterattack against what it says are the iPhone maker’s self-serving measures cloaked in the interest of privacy.
Facebook has been feuding with Apple for months on issues ranging from prices for paid apps to privacy-rule changes…
“This is not really about privacy for them,” said Dan Levy, Facebook’s head of ad products. “This is about an attack on personalized ads and the consequences it’s going to have on small-business owners.”
Apple said in a statement: “We believe that this is a simple matter of standing up for our users. Users should know when their data is being collected and shared across other apps and websites—and they should have the choice to allow that or not.”
My take: Facebook and Epic. Dumb and dumber.
Zuckerberg could care less about his users and FaceBook wouldn’t be where it is today without the iPhone.*
* There’s plenty of evidence about Zuckerberg’s unbounded ambitions and careless attitude in protecting FaceBook users from malevolently targeting actors.
Don’t like Apple policies, Facebook can go pound sand. Take your app, messenger, Instagram and ads and go full on Android. So what if the typical Android users spends 70% less, it isn’t about YOUR $$$, it’s about expression, exploitation, and of course making the user YOUR product.
They and Epic can rot together. They deserve each other.
With “friends like that, who needs enemies”
The vast majority of Apple users will elect to allowing themselves to be targeted. I long have monitored this aspect through discussions with users and if I, from first hand discussions with FB & non FB users have discerned this fact, then why in heavens name has not FB’s sophisticated experts with huge amounts of cash to run surveys not discerned this fact?
And Jerry – totally agree.