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Interesting, I wasn't (consciously) aware of that advertising... I think personally, I don't find it believable that one of the world's largest public companie
by habnds 7y ago
Interesting, I wasn't (consciously) aware of that advertising...
I think personally, I don't find it believable that one of the world's largest public companies would have the discipline to forgo a revenue stream as big as advertising over the long term. If they have the data they'll eventually use it IMHO.
It's interesting to think of privacy concerns as split between concerns about sharing data with a "counterparty" company, and concerns about sharing data with a third party like an advertiser. I think I'm at least as concerned about giving data to a counter party as I am to giving it to a third party.
I never really thought about privacy conerns as beeing the concern that one's data could leave a BIGTECH company. Always thought about it as allowing one of those companies access in the first place.
- rahoulb 7y agoWell, Apple say that they don't actually have the data in the first place. For example, with maps, they chop your travel into pieces with no common identifiers. So that way, they get traffic information and can understand which routes are busy or frequently used. But, because there's no identifiers involved and it's broken into pieces before it reaches them, even if they wanted to, they can't tie that data back to you or recreate your actual journey on a particular day. Which in turn means they can't build a picture of where you, as an individual, go. That's a rough paraphrase of what Apple have said, anyway. As far as revenue streams go, they make their money from hardware and increasingly subscription services. Differentiation is important - and because of their business model, they can talk about privacy in a way that their competition cannot.