Apple killed new social apps. What's the value of a social graph nowadays? Most of the big social media platforms like instagram and facebook that used to present you content based on your friends, now present general content from anyone a la tiktok, and users like it better based on time spent on the app. People interact with their friends via messaging apps. It's not clear to me how a new social media app could use a social graph in a new interesting way.
At the same time, I can't help but think that this practice buys lock in for Apple in some way in the form of potentially new iphone features. And it's just veiled as a pro consumer privacy measure.
> Most of the big social media platforms like instagram and facebook that used to present you content based on your friends, now present general content from anyone a la tiktok, and users like it better based on time spent on the app.
They now present you "content" based on the chances to trigger "engagement". And if you chomp on the bait you do end up spending more time in the app.
Has nothing to do with Apple though. More with profit.
At the same time, I can't help but think that this practice buys lock in for Apple in some way in the form of potentially new iphone features. And it's just veiled as a pro consumer privacy measure.
Time will tell.