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This has nothing to do with Apple vs. Google. It has more to do with Android being Open Source. So they modify Android + put the Google stuff on it (which Veriz
by chrisper 10y ago
This has nothing to do with Apple vs. Google. It has more to do with Android being Open Source. So they modify Android + put the Google stuff on it (which Verizon is paying a fee for).
- _jal 10y agoBut it does. Follow the money - the consequences flow directly from the differing business models. Verizon can't poison Apple's phones, because Apple profits by not selling out their customers. Google benefits from surveilling their customers, so their OS is surveillance-friendly. By piggybacking on Google's purpose-built surveillance-friendly OS, Verizon's commonality of interest with Google benefits them.
- paulgb 10y agoThe app store is Apple's way of selling out access to their customers, it just happens to be to developers instead of advertisers. I use Android and iOS so I don't have a horse in the race, but it's disengenous to claim that Apple's business model makes it any more your device than Apple's.
- ChrisLTD 10y agoApp Store revenue is a drop in the bucket for Apple. The App Store's raison d'être is to drive more hardware sales.
- paulgb 10y agoThat's not what apple tells shareholders: http://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/17/02/01/see-how-apples-services-revenue-has-grown-steadily-amid-changes-in-other-business-segments http://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/17/02/01/see-how-app...
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