Expect more of this pushing competitors out as Apple transitions further into the 'services' business model by monetizing their vast trove of user data. MSFT a

Expect more of this pushing competitors out as Apple transitions further into the 'services' business model by monetizing their vast trove of user data. MSFT and GOOG have been doing this too for years ofcourse. While GOOG has had to be content only with what they can read from emails/calendars, texts, web searches, calls/voicemail, maps/location data and anything else that they can scrape from an Android device. MSFT has had all of that a much, much more since they own the whole OS for workstation/server class devices where actual work gets done. MSFT will claim that all that data is for quality control and now security services but ofcourse they are going to squeeze every last drop of money they can from it. To expect otherwise would be like asking an alcoholic to guard a brewery and never sample the product, completely ridiculous. The US has no serious legal repercussions for doing so. Probably because the US intelligence community depends on that data since IT is forbidden from collecting it from Americans on its own. Gee, I wonder why...