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You're missing the point. Apple makes money by people buying their products, and Apple sells more products when people trust them. Therefore, they have a strong
by OskarS 6y ago
You're missing the point. Apple makes money by people buying their products, and Apple sells more products when people trust them. Therefore, they have a strong financial incentive to be trustworthy and at least appear to care about user privacy. The best way to appear to care about user privacy is to actually care about it: they make no money selling private information to 3rd parties, so there's no point in doing it.
Google, on the other hand, makes some money selling stuff to consumers, but they make a lot more money selling your data to whoever wants to buy ads. That's the business they're in.
No one is saying "Apple is inherently good and Google is inherently evil". They're both amoral massive corporations that care about profits above all else. It just happens to be the case that Apple makes more money when they protect user privacy, and Google makes more money when they violate user privacy.
- ksk 6y ago> and Apple sells more products when people trust them. I am interested to know how you have estimated/measured this increase. Is it 1%? 20%? What does your data show?
- anotherman554 6y agoJust like Apple keeps changing the App store rules when they decide they can get more money by taxing developers, Apple will reduce privacy when they decide they can get more money, because they never have enough money. And it won't hurt Apple sales, because their competition is no better. You claim Apple sells more because people trust them. Unless people are going to stop using smart phones they have no choice to use Google or Apple devices, privacy violations and all.
- lern_too_spel 6y agoI agree that they have an incentive to care about privacy because they have so far been incompetent at using data for the benefit of their users. However, they still collect a lot of data in order to try to get better at providing user benefit. Consider that on iOS you cannot get your location without also giving your location to Apple or install an app without telling Apple. Competing platforms do not suffer from these privacy invading issues.