Apple backtracks on parental control apps using MDM [www.businessinsider.com]
Apple Backs Off Crackdown on Parental-Control Apps [www.nytimes.com]
Apple Reverses Course and Allows Parental Control Apps to Use MDM Technology With Stricter Privacy Requirements [www.macrumors.com]
Apple walks back MDM parental control apps ban, but with tighter guidelines [9to5mac.com]
With antitrust investigations looming, Apple reverses course on bans of parental control apps [techcrunch.com]
Apple sued by iOS developers over App Store fees [www.cnet.com]
Apple backtracks massively, allowing apps to use a technology it called 'highly invasive' just weeks ago https://t.co/bn88dDcW12
— Business Insider (@businessinsider) June 4, 2019
Hours after Margrethe @Vestager said she was looking into parental control app complaints against @Apple, the iPhone maker "quietly" allowed the apps back into its ecosystem https://t.co/LnG3q4YU26
— Simon Van Dorpe (@simonvandorpe) June 4, 2019
A few hours later, a source texted me: Apple quietly updated its App Store rules. The parental-control apps could once again use the technology that they had used for years.
— Jack Nicas (@jacknicas) June 4, 2019
One app maker's response: “Why this last year of pain?"https://t.co/JcahIlJufs
Antitrust pressure already helping small businesses who make apps. https://t.co/V2cgYYSLzU
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) June 4, 2019
Apple will let developers use MDM and VPN in their parental control apps again. These sound like drugs, but they're not. https://t.co/zxKao9ZtXO
— Megan Morrone ? (@meganmorrone) June 4, 2019
Apple isn't doing this because of antitrust (really weird angle, NYT), it's doing it because if it can't get parents to buy their kids iPhones, it could lose a generation of customers. https://t.co/PHg6kVgm3e
— David Ruddock (@RDRv3) June 4, 2019
Wait, does this mean that @freedom will be back with full app-blocking features? BE STILL MY HEART! #screenlifebalance https://t.co/YWNtxUChd2
— Catherine Price (@Catherine_Price) June 4, 2019
Apple Backs Off Crackdown on Parental-Control Apps https://t.co/b2uDime14h #tech #technology pic.twitter.com/ctgcG40OKB
— Kevin Kurbs (@KKurbs) June 4, 2019
Just Now from #SiliconValley! With #antitrust investigations looming, @Apple reverses course on bans of parental control apps.@MarshaCollier @mthiele10 @laurenmaille @digitalcloudgal @psalvitti @Craw @furrier @dvellante @thomaspower @BillMew @rwang0 https://t.co/9PpBnR83IZ
— Sarbjeet Johal (@sarbjeetjohal) June 4, 2019
I’m very happy Apple relented. But, this whole episode has been shameful. https://t.co/Ts2na6frTp
— Before Labs (@beforelabs) June 4, 2019