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California May Ban Lyft And Uber From AI Price Gouging Users With Low Phone Batteries (www.jalopnik.com)
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[โ€“] MisterMoo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why does Apple even let apps read my phone model and battery level?

[โ€“] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Because they pay apple? I'd imagine that's obvious. It's more useful metrics for the developer. I would be surprised if they didn't tier the information access about users behind closed doors.

Android's not perfect, but at least permissions can be set per app, you can root your device, or install GrapheneOS or Lineage to bypass this crap entirely.