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Tim Sweeney on Product · ViralLoop

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A couple months in, Apple has already broken a basic feature required by competing app stores. 😕 Apps on Apple’s store can recognize a user across all of their devices, but competing app stores can’t, because Apple inserts itself and this tracking tech between users and devs.

407 likes33 repliesPosted May 13, 2024

View the original on X Written by Tim Sweeney. Captured Sep 4, 2026.

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