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Because Google is primarily (not solely) an advertising / information company, so there's a financial incentive to sacrifice privacy. Apple is primarily (not s
by jacobwg 10y ago
Because Google is primarily (not solely) an advertising / information company, so there's a financial incentive to sacrifice privacy.
Apple is primarily (not solely) a hardware / product company, so the financial incentives are different.
There's also a stronger history of Apple fighting for user privacy against government requests, etc.
- darrmit 10y agoYes, this. If it's free, you're the product. Same reason I pay for Fastmail.
- paulcole 10y agointeresting phrase. did you coin it?
- darrmit 10y agoNo, think I saw it on here first..but it's a pretty powerful phrase.
- majewsky 10y agoI saw it first on this comic: https://www.ethannonsequitur.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/facebook-and-you-pigs.jpg https://www.ethannonsequitur.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/... (not on that site though, I searched for it on Google Images)
- Esau 10y agoMy understanding is that Andrew Lewis first said it. http://www.metafilter.com/95152/Userdriven-discontent#3256046 http://www.metafilter.com/95152/Userdriven-discontent#325604...
- pdimitar 10y agoI fully agree, but I still cynically wonder if there are no insolent companies out there who know that people believe in this sentiment and will make you play PLUS sell your info to 3rd parties. Yep, I am fun at parties.
- on_and_off 10y ago>There's also a stronger history of Apple fighting for user privacy against government requests, etc. Is there ? AFAIK Google has been pretty pro-active in giving as little data to the governments as it legally can. Or maybe I have been influenced by the PR Google has been doing about this for years.