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I'm not defending any megacorp, but looking at where each corp gets their revenue is probably a reasonable way to determine who the corp is trying to make happy

I'm not defending any megacorp, but looking at where each corp gets their revenue is probably a reasonable way to determine who the corp is trying to make happy. If most of your revenue is from advertisers, you're going to try to make advertisers happy. Advertisers are happier when they have more user data for ad targeting. Apple seems to be getting most revenue from hardware sales, so they're going to prioritize keeping people within their ecosystem, and making sure hardware needs to be re-purchased at regular intervals, either through innovation or through designed obsolescence.

nbzso 6y ago
"Apple seems to be getting most revenue from hardware sales, so they're going to prioritize keeping people within their ecosystem, and making sure hardware needs to be re-purchased at regular intervals, either through innovation or through designed obsolescence." The recent events are against this statement. Locking Mac Os further and excluding Apple Telemetry from VPN is not reason for trust.
- Engineering-MD 6y ago
  Can you expand on the excluding the apple telemetry from VPN? Not something I was aware of
  - newscracker 6y ago
    In macOS Big Sur, firewalls like Little Snitch or Lulu were unable to block Apple's own services from phoning home. That has now been fixed in the latest beta release and will work as it did before soon. You can see this article for details. [1] [1]: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/01/14/macos-big-sur-11-2-beta-2-exclusion-list-gone/ https://www.macrumors.com/2021/01/14/macos-big-sur-11-2-beta...
    - nbzso 6y ago
      I am 20+ years on Apple products. This is not the way for me. I cannot trust them anymore. If I have payed for my computer and the vendor is using it without my permission - there is no fix for this. What's next? Jailbreaking Mac OS? I don't care for Apple apologists or cultists, they have a right to choose. My choice is to move away from Apple products and replace everything that I can with Linux and FOSS.

nbzso 6y ago

"Apple seems to be getting most revenue from hardware sales, so they're going to prioritize keeping people within their ecosystem, and making sure hardware needs to be re-purchased at regular intervals, either through innovation or through designed obsolescence." The recent events are against this statement. Locking Mac Os further and excluding Apple Telemetry from VPN is not reason for trust.

Engineering-MD 6y ago
Can you expand on the excluding the apple telemetry from VPN? Not something I was aware of
- newscracker 6y ago
  In macOS Big Sur, firewalls like Little Snitch or Lulu were unable to block Apple's own services from phoning home. That has now been fixed in the latest beta release and will work as it did before soon. You can see this article for details. [1] [1]: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/01/14/macos-big-sur-11-2-beta-2-exclusion-list-gone/ https://www.macrumors.com/2021/01/14/macos-big-sur-11-2-beta...
  - nbzso 6y ago
    I am 20+ years on Apple products. This is not the way for me. I cannot trust them anymore. If I have payed for my computer and the vendor is using it without my permission - there is no fix for this. What's next? Jailbreaking Mac OS? I don't care for Apple apologists or cultists, they have a right to choose. My choice is to move away from Apple products and replace everything that I can with Linux and FOSS.