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Why would Apple be on a list for "Sharing Economy Companies" - I'm not seeing the reasoning behind why you'd believe they're a sharing economy company?
by nxzero 10y ago
Why would Apple be on a list for "Sharing Economy Companies" - I'm not seeing the reasoning behind why you'd believe they're a sharing economy company?
- d33 10y agoTheir recent fight with FBI for one. Granted, they're not saints, but at the very list they stirred up some controversy.
- bskap 10y agoBut they're not a "sharing economy" company. They show up on the normal Who Has Your Back list.
- theseatoms 10y agoThe modern 'cloud' sounds like data storage sharing and computing sharing to me.
- bskap 10y ago"sharing economy" usually refers to services that don't directly sell things, but instead get users who want things in contact with other users who have things- Uber getting people who want to use a car in contact with people who have a car, for example. Cloud is just traditional renting with fancy terminology.
- wyldfire 10y agoThey're not on this list because they're not in these [sharing economy] marketplaces. They have been and likely will continue to be a part of the primary "Who has your back?" review ([1] e.g). [1] https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-requests-2015 https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-reques...
- d33 10y agoAh, right, missed this one. Sorry.