TechFirst with John Koetsier
TechFirst with John Koetsier
John Koetsier
Apple's privacy-safe tech has bugs, suggesting that iOS 14's privacy delays were for internal reasons, not ecosystem health
6 minutes Posted Oct 24, 2020 at 8:52 pm.
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Apple’s iOS 14 is probably the most privacy-safe mobile operating system on the planet. But a major part of the planned functionality was delayed until 2021. At the time, Apple said the reason was that mobile developers weren’t ready yet.

As it turns out, that might not be true.

And Apple has now admitted that its own advertising attribution software has two major bugs.

The Forbes story for this episode is here:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/10/24/apples-privacy-safe-mobile-attribution-solution-is-buggy-core-functions-missing-from-skadnetwork/