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The reason I support Apple, and can be fan boyish about them, is because they very intentional make sure their customers are not their products. The make money
by marricks 9y ago
The reason I support Apple, and can be fan boyish about them, is because they very intentional make sure their customers are not their products. The make money selling devices & subscriptions, not data. Ergo, making devices more secure makes their product more attractive to consumers if anyone of them value privacy. That seems like a good setup to me.
- bigbugbag 9y agoWould get jailed in solitary in a federal prison because you get better privacy there, only the guards are warden spy on you? Let's not forget that apple devices are akin to a prison due to the their strict vendor lock-in. Apple not directly selling your data to advertisers does not mean that they do not collect it or use it in other ways (including indirect selling).
- marricks 9y agoThe explicitly use differential privacy to allow collecting of anonymized large samples of data[1]. They're pretty serious about privacy. Also for having a walled garden of an app store and locked down devices, yep, that's a polarizing aspect to them, no doubt. [1] https://www.wired.com/2016/06/apples-differential-privacy-collecting-data/ https://www.wired.com/2016/06/apples-differential-privacy-co...