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Let’s just get the obvious stuff out of the way and acknowledge that multi-billion-dollar companies don’t have fundamental values outside of doing what best ben

Let’s just get the obvious stuff out of the way and acknowledge that multi-billion-dollar companies don’t have fundamental values outside of doing what best benefits their shareholders. There’s no reason to believe Tim Cook lacks his own genuinely held beliefs that are nice and altruistic, but major corporations are more like nation-states today. Agreed. Anyone who thinks of corporations (or nations) as their personal "friend" is most likely a tad confused. However, corporations are still entities with which you can interact in the real world. This means the level of trust with which you interact with said corporations is up to you. I am personally far more comfortable sending messages on iMessage w/ an iPhone, than with say Skype or Facebook Messenger.

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bradgessler 8y ago
One should not assume Apple is taking a strong position on privacy and security for altruistic reasons. I assume they are competitively positioning themselves against Google, Facebook, etc. and will hopefully be rewarded by the market as more people wake up to the importance of privacy and security being designed into their hardware and software. Apple is simply betting that privacy and security is great for business. No more. No less.
- crazygringo 8y ago
  Which is what makes me trust it the most. When someone takes an altruistic stance, it's easy for them to change their mind later if they decide $$$ is more important. But when I see that an organization's actions align with their profit motive... then I find it much easier to rely on them, at least as long as I expect their position relative to the market/competition to remain qualitatively the same.
bernardino 8y ago
When Apple introduced Screen Time in this past keynote, I was pretty stoked about it, but not about Screen Time itself, but rather: when it seems every large corporation's product or application out there is tailored for more and more consumption (think Spotify, Snapchat, Netflix, Facebook, etc), where they disregard the mental well-being of their consumers, anything that tries to limit or stop that seems particularly grand, in my opinion.
- reitanqild 8y ago
  It might be worth noting that Google announced similar features a few weeks before Apple. They'll come to my not flagship Nokia 6.1 2018 phone this summer since it is part of the androidone program.

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bradgessler 8y ago

One should not assume Apple is taking a strong position on privacy and security for altruistic reasons. I assume they are competitively positioning themselves against Google, Facebook, etc. and will hopefully be rewarded by the market as more people wake up to the importance of privacy and security being designed into their hardware and software. Apple is simply betting that privacy and security is great for business. No more. No less.

crazygringo 8y ago
Which is what makes me trust it the most. When someone takes an altruistic stance, it's easy for them to change their mind later if they decide $$$ is more important. But when I see that an organization's actions align with their profit motive... then I find it much easier to rely on them, at least as long as I expect their position relative to the market/competition to remain qualitatively the same.

bernardino 8y ago

When Apple introduced Screen Time in this past keynote, I was pretty stoked about it, but not about Screen Time itself, but rather: when it seems every large corporation's product or application out there is tailored for more and more consumption (think Spotify, Snapchat, Netflix, Facebook, etc), where they disregard the mental well-being of their consumers, anything that tries to limit or stop that seems particularly grand, in my opinion.

reitanqild 8y ago
It might be worth noting that Google announced similar features a few weeks before Apple. They'll come to my not flagship Nokia 6.1 2018 phone this summer since it is part of the androidone program.