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> Other platforms don’t care if applications fingerprint the device without the user’s consent.

Isn't this supposed to be why the App Store has a manual approval process? So Apple can actually check if developers are doing malicious things?

By all means, apply extra scrutiny if an old API is in use. Maybe allow the API only in updates to old apps, and not new ones.

No. The manual approval process covers the visible features, not shady stuff the reviewers can’t see.

> By all means, apply extra scrutiny if an old API is in use. Maybe allow the API only in updates to old apps, and not new ones.

If the developer is updating the app, there is no reason they shouldn’t adopt a more user friendly api.