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Then apple should focus on improving the APIs to be privacy safe (how they successfully do in their own APIs). But they are not. It is not about privacy. It is
by oaiey 5y ago
Then apple should focus on improving the APIs to be privacy safe (how they successfully do in their own APIs). But they are not.
It is not about privacy. It is about revenue.
- alwillis 5y agohen apple should focus on improving the APIs to be privacy safe (how they successfully do in their own APIs). If you follow some of the conversations on GitHub when a proposal comes up from Google, which I sometimes do, there’s no simple way to make some of these APIs private. And when Apple proposes ways to do so, Google balks at them because… their revenue is based on advertising that tracks users across the web. It’s not rocket science. Remember, Google is the only company that ships a mainstream browser that doesn’t come with privacy settings by default. There’s no features in Chrome to block trackers or limit how 3rd party cookies are used unlike Safari, Firefox and Edge. Apple’s market cap is around 2.5 trillion dollars; while they make revenue from apps, it’s a rounding error compared to their overall market cap or their iPhone revenue.
- jsnell 5y agoI don't know why you think the market cap is relevant here. But Apple's net income in 2020 was about $60B. The total App Store revenue was about $64B, out of which Apple extracted $20B in rent. Not all of that $20B was profit, but based on what we know about the economics of running such stores, it was about $15B of profit. That is 25% of all of Apple's profit in 2020. Apple will do anything to protect that income stream. If the way to protect it is to cripple the web, well, you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.