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I hate to admit it, but I agree with Meta here. Apple themselves are collecting all of these things on their devices, so their privacy argument is clearly a lie.
So you are ok with Apple harvesting that data and using it in their advertisement business?
Edit: but to make it a bit more clear: Meta is not the only one affected by Apple monopolizing and profiting from data access. Apple is also preventing the use of an open-source and privacy respecting app to journal emotional health each day (assuming you want to sync that data to your personal cloud storage).
That's how their marketing department spinns it, yes. But it is well studied that Apple devices phone home even more privacy sensitive data-types than stock Android do, and Apple bought and runs a web-advertisement company that does the same kind of targeted advertisement as all the others.
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/android-ios-data-collection
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-is-an-ad-company-now/
There's Android. Or a dumbphone. They might be more to Meta's liking. Well, are. Except the dumbphone.
Apple is AFAIK a designated large platform operator under the DMA and hence are legally required to open their platform to 3rd parties. That's the main point of the DMA regulation.
Sounds like the perfect opportunity for Meta to bumrush all of Apple's IP and use it to all the nefarious ends. I'm not sure that's the best idea.
I see no big difference to Apple doing the same, and the DMA opens the possibility for Apple users to switch to more privacy respecting apps.
And contrary to the Apple device built in surveillance apps, no one is forced to install shitty Meta apps on their device.