Former iAd exec leaves Apple, says platform is being held back by its user data privacy policy
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Winston Crawford, a former advertising executive, has left [URL="http://9to5mac/tag/apple"]Apple[/URL] to join Drawbridge. The move comes at an interesting time given [URL="http://9to5mac.com/2015/06/02/tim-cook-privacy-encryption/"]Tim Cook’s recent comments[/URL] on user data and privacy.Drawbridge is a relatively new company which helps marketers track user data across multiple mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. He joined as COO to help expand the tracking technology to new areas like offering the ability for retailers to show the same online shopping cart to a single customer across multiple devices.
What’s interesting about this move is Crawford’s comments about Apple’s way of doing ads. Going back to those thoughts shared by Tim Cook about not being in the business of harvesting user data for profit, and looking at what Drawbridge does, it’s quite a startling contrast between the two.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE][B]In other words, he believes that because [URL="http://9to5mac.com/iad"]iAd[/URL][/B][B] doesn’t harvest and share private user information with marketers, that the service is restricted or held back. [/B]His suggestion then is that Apple’s moral code gets in the way of a potentially very promising platform.
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[URL]http://9to5mac.com/2015/07/14/iad-user-data-privacy-policy/[/URL]
He left because Apple wishes to keep its customers information private to marketeers who resell other users information? Well okay, bye.
Edit: Title fuckup, soon fixed.
I don't know much about Apple's policies and if they are actually any good or not, but this actually makes me very happy. If they're this adamant about protecting such information then I feel safer on my iPhone
Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. Not everyone is comfortable with marketers having access to private info.
For all the shit I give Apple, their security policies are at least impressive.
apple and their damn tyrannical russian type bullshit, you can't even use itunes to launch a missile
[QUOTE=Sand Castle;48212778]apple and their damn tyrannical russian type bullshit, you can't even use itunes to launch a missile[/QUOTE]
:bullshit: We have a smiley for this situation.
[QUOTE=James xX;48212882]:bullshit: We have a smiley for this situation.[/QUOTE]
it would have ruined the written timing of the joke post
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