Trust, Leadership, Privacy

In case you missed it because you don’t allow a Wallet app to give you push notifications, Apple sent an ad for the F1 movie through the Wallet app. That’s clearly fucked.

John Gruber follows up on that today with this:

The perception of privacy is just as important as the technical details that make something actually private. I try very seldom to call for anyone to be fired, but I think whoever authorized this movie ad through Wallet push notifications ought to be canned.

As I said a week ago, Apple has a significant leadership problem. It’s not that they don’t have leadership, it’s that they clearly are not leading Apple to be the company which made them who they are today. That’s dangerous. A lot of people have a hard time criticizing people or companies that they love, but criticizing Cook and his leadership team takes nothing away from all the amazing things they have done, but rather points out some sort of change that is not good.

2025 Apple is clearly flailing.