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Travis Kalanick, the chief executive of Uber, visited Apple's headquarters in early 2015 to meet with Timothy D. Cook, who runs the iPhone maker. It was a session that Mr. Kalanick was dreading.
For months, Mr. Kalanick had pulled a fast one on Apple by directing his employees to help camouflage the ride-hailing app from Apple's engineers. The reason? So Apple would not find out that Uber had been secretly identifying and tagging iPhones even after its app had been deleted and the devices erased — a fraud detection maneuver that violated Apple's privacy guidelines.
[...] "So, I've heard you've been breaking some of our rules," Mr. Cook said in his calm, Southern tone. Stop the trickery, Mr. Cook then demanded, or Uber's app would be kicked out of Apple's App Store.
There is brazen, and then there is dumb.
If NYTimes is paywalled, try this, Business Insider
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Wednesday April 26 2017, @08:25AM
Vetting:
Is it rude?
Will any faith-based types complain about it?
Does it try to bypass the payments system?
Does it do anything obviously criminal?
Then, when someone complains, yank it, and tell everyone the problem wasn't related to the app or the vetting, but "something else".
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex