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Apple releases official statement on the removal of parental control apps from the App Store

[cfsp key=”getamac.jpg”]Apple Inc. has released an official statement regarding the removal of parental control apps from the App Store. Here it is, verbatim:

APPLE STATEMENT April 28, 2019

The facts about parental control apps

Apple has always believed that parents should have tools to manage their children’s device usage. It’s the reason we created, and continue to develop, Screen Time. Other…

[cfsp key=”getamac.jpg”]”They all tell a similar story: They ran apps that helped people limit the time they and their children spent on iPhones,” Jack Nicas reports for The New York Times. “Then Apple created its own screen-time tracker. And then Apple made staying in business very, very difficult.”

“Over the past year, Apple has removed or restricted at least 11 of the 17 most downloaded…

Screen Time: Will we actually reclaim our time from iPhones and iPads in 2019?

[cfsp key=”getamac.jpg”]”At the beginning of this year, I was using my iPhone to browse new titles on Amazon when I saw the cover of ‘How to Break Up With Your Phone‘ by Catherine Price. I downloaded it on Kindle because I genuinely wanted to reduce my smartphone use, but also because I thought it would be hilarious to read a book about breaking up with your smartphone on my smartphone (stupid, I…

“So far, touch wood, the neck of Nova Scotian woods I live in has been spared experiencing the great Christmas blackout that has afflicted much of the U.S. Northeast and eastern Canada,” Charles Moore writes for TechnologyTell. “There has been some…