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20 May 2021
Apple’s top software engineer recently criticized the security of the company’s own Mac operating system while explaining why the company should not be forced to loosen its hold over iOS app distribution.
Bloomberg reports that Apple Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi recently testified at a trial in federal court in Oakland, California, that his experience with malware viruses on MacOS systems showed that security would be eroded if the company allowed iPhone and iPad users to install software from independent sources.
The trial is part of Apple’s ongoing legal dispute with Epic Games, the makers of the popular
Internal Apple emails surfaced in the
Epic Games v. Apple trial show some of the company debate surrounding Search Ads on the App Store, including how it could be at odds with Apple s public messaging.
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The discussion, which took place in February 2015, was between Apple engineer David Neumann and Fraud Engineering Algorithms and Risk head Eric Friedman. They took place more than a year before Apple actually rolled out search ads in 2016.
The debate kicked off when Neumann emailed Friedman a link to a Google announcement concerning ads in the Google Play store. Boy, I sure wish we could do this, Neumann said in the email thread presented as an exhibit in the trial, which was first spotted by