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> I strongly believe if you buy a device, you should own that device and be in control of what you put on that device. Then don't buy Apple? The fact is that
by gwd 6y ago
> I strongly believe if you buy a device, you should own that device and be in control of what you put on that device.
Then don't buy Apple?
The fact is that it costs money to develop and maintain the OS on the phone, and that money has to come from somewhere. Apple pays for this maintenance by charging a tax on app developers that use their ecosystem; Google pays for it by spying on you.
Right now, we can both choose: You can buy a phone that pays for the software by spying on you, I can buy a phone that pays for the software by charging a toll for applications.
You haven't explicitly advocated using monopoly sanctions to make Apple's business model illegal, but lots of people have. If those efforts are successful, that will remove my choice to pay more for no spying.
- turblety 6y agoApple spies too. Their core business model just isn't based on selling that data. Apple knows every single app you've installed on your phone, the version, the time you installed it, every update you've ever had, how often you check for updates, the apps you removed, and probably much more. You MUST login to an Apple account to have an anyway usable iPhone. Android, if you don't login to Google, and use a more ethical app store, get's much less data. Obvious disclaimer: The entire of iOS, and parts of Android factory builds are closed source (e.g. the bootloaders), so we can't really know for sure what more they collect.