Developers take on Apple over app store rules
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
As Apple prepares for its annual developers conference (WWDC 2020), it comes under fire for what many see as anti-competitive practices. Developer David Heinemeier Hansson of Basecamp tells us why he’s angry about Apple's rates. We get the latest in contact tracing apps from Professor Stephen Farrell of Trinity College, Dublin, who has been researching the effectiveness of Bluetooth and German journalist Anna Noryskiewicz talks about the launch of a tracing app in Germany. And we go to India to hear about the digital divide being experienced by school children with Nishant Baghel of the Pratham Education Foundation in Mumbai.
Presented by Rory Cellan Jones with help from BBC Technology Reporter Zoe Kleinman. Produced by Clare Williamson.
(Image: Apple's app store, screen shot. Credit:BBC)
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| 0:45.9 | business. I'm Rory Kathleen Jones and this week why the developers who make the apps for the iPhone |
| 0:51.1 | are at war with Apple. How confident can we be in contact tracing apps |
| 0:55.9 | when governments around the world keep changing their mind |
| 0:58.3 | and the technology itself comes into question? |
| 1:01.3 | And why has India had to backtrack on using internet-based technology |
| 1:05.2 | to home-educate its school children during the lockdown? |
| 1:09.1 | Joining me this week is BBC technology reporter Zoe Clyman. |
| 1:12.2 | Hi, Zoe. |
| 1:13.1 | Hello, Rory. |
| 1:14.4 | How are you? Where are you? What are you doing? |
| 1:16.7 | I'm in my lounge at home, feeling a bit decentralized, Rory. I don't know about you. |
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