I linked to some ads stuff, it's my understanding Apple does telemetry more than *nix, but actually doesn't do marketing tracking like Ubuntu has done.
That is correct, Apple products check in with the mothership at each app launch and other important events. They have the ability to prevent applications from launching on a device you own in a targeted way.
There was a SNAFU a few years back when their fast-fail code stopped working after an update and everyone in a region was unable to use their devices.
Yeah it is, they are more big brother than Microsoft is. What's even worse, it happened in 2016 or 2017 (from memory) and had made quite a big splash in IT. They basically had an issue with a load balancer or manifest server not being properly updated, and it caused their network fast fail code to not bug out correctly which hung all launched applications in that particular region.
If you go searching for it now, they've completely wiped it from the web. Went looking for the article and its gone now.
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Wouldn't an Ubuntu laptop have less tracking than a Macbook?
I linked to some ads stuff, it's my understanding Apple does telemetry more than *nix, but actually doesn't do marketing tracking like Ubuntu has done.
That is correct, Apple products check in with the mothership at each app launch and other important events. They have the ability to prevent applications from launching on a device you own in a targeted way.
There was a SNAFU a few years back when their fast-fail code stopped working after an update and everyone in a region was unable to use their devices.
That's pretty horrifying, it's a good thing Canonical isn't as integral to the Linux desktop as Apple is to the MacOS one...
Yeah it is, they are more big brother than Microsoft is. What's even worse, it happened in 2016 or 2017 (from memory) and had made quite a big splash in IT. They basically had an issue with a load balancer or manifest server not being properly updated, and it caused their network fast fail code to not bug out correctly which hung all launched applications in that particular region.
If you go searching for it now, they've completely wiped it from the web. Went looking for the article and its gone now.