How is that Apple didn't catch TikTok doing this way way earlier to give them some sort of penalty.
I’m not saying it’s any better, or indeed worse, rather it’s an important distinction.
That being said, I of course know that the Chinese government didn’t force Apple to implement this privacy violating feature, and I know that the Chinese government didn’t force Apple to allow TikTok to abuse it. But many people see Apple as a privacy conscious company thanks to its marketing, and its good to remind people that for Apple, privacy is simply a marketing gimmick.