And Apple needs Facebook’s apps — Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger — to make its devices worth their high price tags. In 2018, scandal engulfed Facebook over the news that the voter-profiling company Cambridge Analytica had harvested the Facebook data of more than 50 million people. And Facebook was again at the receiving end of that clout this year when Apple blocked its new Facebook Gaming app from distribution in its App Store. That was when Apple announced changes to iPhone software that would blunt the ability of companies like Facebook to collect data on iPhone users. For now, Apple and Facebook hardly compete, save for some limited areas, like Facebook Portal, a screen that Facebook sells for video chatting.

Source: bd News24 December 16, 2020 21:45 UTC