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Comment on Intro for iPhone – No Longer Supported

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I wonder if

- Apple told them they had better stop

- Adoption was lackluster

- The privacy complaints overwhelmed any benefit

(or all three)

Adoption.

Not that many people care/are aware about the privacy/security issues at stake.

It was too much of a niche thing (i.e. not for iphone's "average" users) and from a big enough player that Apple wouldn't protest.

But it was a complicated and long process to install/configure it. I doubt many non-geeks bothered. So it probably never got any traction beyond a few thousand users. Not worth keeping around at Linkedin's scale.

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