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Okay then let me grant "Full Notification Access permissions" on iPhone and we're good.


None of this comment chain makes sense… how is this relevant when Apple operates across hundreds of jurisdictions?

Most of which don’t allow users to waive rights based on a prompt.

So Apple would still have liability anyways for grandma getting scammed, regardless of how expertly worded the prompts are.

Which entails extra customer service costs, handling lawsuits, etc… that someone has to pay for.


Why would Apple be liable for these things? There are existing phones in every market that allow such things without any liability issues.


In which jurisdictions are there no court cases whatsoever regarding similar and related issues?


Can you point me to any court cases where an OS developer got sued because an idiot clicked through a security prompt and got pwned as a result?


If you answer my question first sincerely, then I will try to answer yours next.


Ok I'll bite. The US is an example of such a jurisdiction.


And why do you expect people to believe that?

There are easily hundreds of cases involving some alleged or actual liability that various groups claim Apple to have in relation to this or that feature/product/service/etc.


The point is that Apple has never been successfully sued because someone clicked through a warning. I don't care if someone files a frivolous lawsuit that fails.

I just want to learn about a single such lawsuit, anywhere, that's actually succeeded. I can't find any.


I didn’t say “successfully sued”?

This doesn’t even make sense in relation to my prior comments… as unsuccessful cases also cost Apple, and various other parties, real money. So it seems entirely irrelevant to the point.




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