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Apple products are more expensive, but you know the saying: if you're not paying, you are the product.
by pdog 9y ago
Apple products are more expensive, but you know the saying: if you're not paying, you are the product.
- kristianc 9y agoSafari is free.
- azr79 9y agoReal, fully fledged Safari is only available on Apple Products
- mnx 9y agoNo, it is not. It's part of Mac OS, which is not free. There used to be a Windows version of Safari, but that was a long time ago.
- 7Z7 9y agoI mean, macOS is free, so long as you are putting it on Apple hardware.
- elif 9y agoin the same way that ferrari engines are free.
- davrosthedalek 9y agoIf they build a better engine, do you get the new motor in a crate, or do you have to go to the vendor? You don't get it at all? So not the same way then.
- Pulcinella 9y agoWell actually if you are a Ferrari F1 engine customer you do get the engine improvements Ferrari makes and the engines do arrive in a crate. So if you are Haas F1 Team then yes, it is very similar. </smug>
- handedness 9y agoSo if I build my own Ferrari to spec (Hackintosh), Ferrari will provide an engine for free?
- astrodust 9y agoIf you buy a Ferrari, yes.
- handedness 9y agoSo, no.
- esrauch 9y agoIt is free like macOS is free, as in, it isn't. It is software that only runs on hardware created by that company: it would be like considering your embedded microwave control software free with the purchase of the microwave. Safari for Windows is long gone if that's what you were thinking.
- madenine 9y agoIts not free, but it could be less not free... there was a time you paid for new versions of OSX.
- Yaggo 9y agoNot really, because in order to [easily] use Apple software, you must buy Apple hardware.
- pm90 9y agoI think this is kinda misleading. Sure Safari is free, but is ONLY available on OSX/iOS which can only be obtained by purchasing apple devices. This is unlike Chrome, which is free for anyone, across any platform. One of my coworkers once told me he preferred Apple products over any other vendor if only because he believes that by paying higher for apple products, he is paying for the privacy/security aspects of having his data secure and personal. I'm not sure how much this is true, but this datapoint does seem to confirm that theory.
- ex3ndr 9y agoIsn't Safari is available on Windows as well?
- panopticon 9y agoIt was discontinued many years ago, but an old version is still available for download.
- dazmax 9y agoThough they didn't discontinue it to drive Mac sales, but because not enough Windows users were using it.
- astrodust 9y agoFirefox, Chrome and Microsoft's relentless pushing of Internet Explorer/Edge makes it hard to survive on that OS.
- saurik 9y agoWell, they only made it in the first place so web developers could test their websites on Windows in a way that would verify compatibility with iOS and Mac. As Chrome (which is very similar to Safari, of course) and iOS came to be a very critical web deployment target, it was no longer needed. Safari for Windows wasn't built purely to have those users use Safari, nor was it discontinued to make people use Mac OS X: it existed so iOS and Mac OS X users would not be ignored by web developers running Windows.
- cmg 9y agoYou have to* purchase an Apple product to use Safari. *We're going to ignore the minuscule hackintosh community for a minute.
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- nebabyte 9y agoWhat a joke misapplication of that phrase. Apple doesn't shirk from making its users "the product" any more than the other big corps.
- j2bax 9y agoI believe the phrase is often used to define companies that sell users information to advertisers to generate the majority of their profit. How does Apple engage in this practice?
- zepto 9y agoYou're going to have to explain, since typically that phrase refers to the practice of selling user attention or data to third parties as your revenue source, which Apple does not do.
- nicky0 9y agoCan you give examples of Apple "making users the product"?