> Most advertisers would pay big money to Apple to know who those people are and what they want; that information is like gold. I think its laughable that this

> Most advertisers would pay big money to Apple to know who those people are and what they want; that information is like gold. I think its laughable that this money would be tempting to Apple when they have a business that almost sees customers buying 700-1000 dollar plus devices on an annual or bi-annual subscription, especially when the privacy stance is one of the core pillars of the marketing message. There is likely no commercially viable business model Apple could adopt to sell that data that would be remotely worth risking a 60-70 billion dollar a quarter in revenue money printing machine. That information is practically worthless in the context of iPhone revenue. Should iPhone sales start to falter, this is absolutely something I would consider a concern, but the iPhone has a long way to fall.