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Flurry analytics responds to Steve Jobs’ criticism over data collection
By Jim DalrympleJune 2, 2010, 6:52 pm PT
During his time at the D8 Conference on Tuesday, Steve Jobs went off a little on Flurry, an analytics company that collects data from mobile devices. The company gets developers to put the code in their apps and it sends data to Flurry. A vice president said they have been in touch with Apple to work out the problems.
Here’s what Jobs had to say last night:
“Some company called Flurry had data on devices that we were using on our campus; new devices,” according to Jobs. “They were getting this info by getting developers to put software in their apps that sent info back to this company! So we went through the roof. It’s violating our privacy policies, and it’s pissing us off! So we said we’re only going to allow analytics that don’t give our device info; only for the purpose of advertising.”
“After we calm down from being pissed off, then we’re willing to talk to some of these analytics firms,” Jobs added. “But it’s not today.”
Flurry reacts to Jobs criticisms about device data [MacNN]
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Flurry analytics responds to Steve Jobs’ criticism over data collection
By Jim DalrympleJune 2, 2010, 6:52 pm PT
During his time at the D8 Conference on Tuesday, Steve Jobs went off a little on Flurry, an analytics company that collects data from mobile devices. The company gets developers to put the code in their apps and it sends data to Flurry. A vice president said they have been in touch with Apple to work out the problems.
Here’s what Jobs had to say last night:
“Some company called Flurry had data on devices that we were using on our campus; new devices,” according to Jobs. “They were getting this info by getting developers to put software in their apps that sent info back to this company! So we went through the roof. It’s violating our privacy policies, and it’s pissing us off! So we said we’re only going to allow analytics that don’t give our device info; only for the purpose of advertising.”
“After we calm down from being pissed off, then we’re willing to talk to some of these analytics firms,” Jobs added. “But it’s not today.”
Flurry reacts to Jobs criticisms about device data [MacNN]
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