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It's interesting that certain bloggers such as Dustin Curtis and Ben Thompson have claimed that Apple's privacy stance will ultimately hurt them because they'll
by IBM 11y ago
It's interesting that certain bloggers such as Dustin Curtis and Ben Thompson have claimed that Apple's privacy stance will ultimately hurt them because they'll be at a disadvantage to competitors, but it seems like they've shown some real foresight when you take this ruling into consideration.
- Oletros 11y agoHow this ruling affects differently Apple from Facebook or Google?
- tomp 11y agoApple's business isn't based on exploiting the user's data and shitting all over their users' privacy (as has been the case with Facebook in the past, and Google too to some extent), and they've taken explicit steps to safeguard their users' privacy (e.g. encryption, ad-blocking).
- Oletros 11y agoWhat has to do what you say with the ruling? What has to do the business model with a ruling that states that user data can't be transferred? How is different iCloud than Google Drive?
- tomp 11y agoThe point is that Google will have to adopt much more than Apple. Sure, iCloud and gDrive might be equivalent, but there is no Apple equivalent to e.g. G+ or G-ads.
- Oletros 11y agoApart that Apple has iAds, having more or less services that store user data has nothing to do with having more or less foresight.
- buster 11y agoAs if there would be a difference in motivation between evil corp#1, evil corp#2 and evil corp#3. You can substitute those names with apple, google, microsoft, facebook, amazon, whatever you like. If you think for one minute that Apple is only a fraction better then their competition you're very misguided by apples great marketing. Honestly, if you think G+ is bad, or Adwords, but the appstore is not (Or iCloud, iwatch, Siri, Amazon Echo, Whatsapp, etc.) you will need to do a reality check. All of those are very privacy intruding and every company will do it's best to make money of your data. And pretty much all of those services is made to collect as much information as possible about you. Use Apple or Google or Facebook and store your private data to be datamined and monetized but please don't fall for marketing speech and all that "don't be evil" bullshit every mega corporation is telling you.
- tomp 11y agoCould you explain to me again, please, how does Apple make money from my data?
- mcintyre1994 11y agoCan we agree that Apple make more money as a result of having "targeting groups" for iAds compared to if they didn't use any targeting? If so, by targeting iAds using data disclosed here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205223 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205223
- tomp 11y agoThanks, I didn't know about that. Still, much better than the rest of them, IMO.
- tdkl 11y agoThey make majority of their revenue from hardware, not services.
- rogeryu 11y agoApple is about hardware, not about data. They can more easily move European user accounts to Ireland. It will affect their business less.