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> Having worked at Apple and other big companies it's almost always Engineers and PMs making these decisions.

I wonder what the backstory to the original decision was.

Pure speculation: a "bug" was reported in which something was broken, and it turned out to be because a third party firewall was blocking access to some Apple-hosted service, and someone started working on "how to fix the bug", and the "bugfix" was to make sure third party software can't do that.




This sounds like a credible situation an engineer may come up with and implement without thinking through the reality of what they're doing.




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