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I am very glad and happy Apple made to this mark not any other company. Apple makes premium product and sell it. Other companies treat you as a product and sel

I am very glad and happy Apple made to this mark not any other company. Apple makes premium product and sell it. Other companies treat you as a product and sell you and your privacy.

mark_l_watson 8y ago
+1 I agree with you. I want to reward Apple for making beautiful products and making a fairly good effort to respect and look after customers’ privacy. I also like Google’s products like Play Movies, Play Music + advertisement free YouTube, Google Assistant, and GCP. I feel like I am ‘leaking’ too much of my private data with Google Assistant but it is such a good product that not using it is a little painful.
paulpauper 8y ago
Eventually Facebook, Google, and Amazon will get there..maybe in a few years or so.
- mkirklions 8y ago
  That is, until a bubble bursts. Maybe 1T dollar companies exist, but given the massive infrastructure of auto companies and their valuation being less than 100B, I'm skeptical that Trillion dollar companies are a real thing.
  - gbear605 8y ago
    Roughly a quarter of the valuation is cash, so it's at least that much.
mkirklions 8y ago
So long HN karma... Proprietary hardware, constantly pissing off developers and customers... Great company /s I dont know why Apple gets a pass for being so anti-competitive. I remember the annoyance of buying music on itunes and being forced to burn it to CD just to play on my mp3 player. Today, its a multi thousand dollar event to publish an app on Apple's store, vs the insignificant cost of publishing on Android and Web. (If anyone has an idea how to reduce the cost of compiling my React Native app and publishing on Apple, I'm all ears, but I'm constantly being told to spend 2k+.)
- mikewhy 8y ago
  > Today, its a multi thousand dollar event to publish an app on Apple's store, vs the insignificant cost of publishing on Android and Web. Mac Minis are definitely much less than that. Yes, you need a Mac to build apps for their hardware. No, it's not many thousands of dollars.

I am very glad and happy Apple made to this mark not any other company. Apple makes premium product and sell it. Other companies treat you as a product and sell you and your privacy.

mark_l_watson 8y ago

+1 I agree with you. I want to reward Apple for making beautiful products and making a fairly good effort to respect and look after customers’ privacy. I also like Google’s products like Play Movies, Play Music + advertisement free YouTube, Google Assistant, and GCP. I feel like I am ‘leaking’ too much of my private data with Google Assistant but it is such a good product that not using it is a little painful.

paulpauper 8y ago

Eventually Facebook, Google, and Amazon will get there..maybe in a few years or so.

mkirklions 8y ago
That is, until a bubble bursts. Maybe 1T dollar companies exist, but given the massive infrastructure of auto companies and their valuation being less than 100B, I'm skeptical that Trillion dollar companies are a real thing.
- gbear605 8y ago
  Roughly a quarter of the valuation is cash, so it's at least that much.

mkirklions 8y ago

So long HN karma... Proprietary hardware, constantly pissing off developers and customers... Great company /s I dont know why Apple gets a pass for being so anti-competitive. I remember the annoyance of buying music on itunes and being forced to burn it to CD just to play on my mp3 player. Today, its a multi thousand dollar event to publish an app on Apple's store, vs the insignificant cost of publishing on Android and Web. (If anyone has an idea how to reduce the cost of compiling my React Native app and publishing on Apple, I'm all ears, but I'm constantly being told to spend 2k+.)

mikewhy 8y ago
> Today, its a multi thousand dollar event to publish an app on Apple's store, vs the insignificant cost of publishing on Android and Web. Mac Minis are definitely much less than that. Yes, you need a Mac to build apps for their hardware. No, it's not many thousands of dollars.