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Sure. This is an easy prediction. Because they actually CHARGE for their services, including a 30% cut of sales on app store, they don't need to sell you out.

Sure. This is an easy prediction. Because they actually CHARGE for their services, including a 30% cut of sales on app store, they don't need to sell you out. So data protection is much less a threat to them then it is to google / facebook et al. The weird thing is folks on HN have a hard-on for destroying Apple, when we know that if regulators ACTUALLY cracked down on a real abuse (Vizio selling your viewing) Apple would be unphased (they probably don't sell any data to third parties) as their ad revenue is a fraction of their overall massive revenue from actual sales.

smoldesu 5y ago
> Because they actually CHARGE for their services, including a 30% cut of sales on app store, they don't need to sell you out. It also means they can do both and reap double the profits. Like how they use their position as the exclusive distributor of apps to sell targeted ads to people on the App Store. > The weird thing is folks on HN have a hard-on for destroying Apple The weirder thing is how many folks on HN have a hard-on for defending Apple, despite the fact that they're pretty much the largest company in the world, full-stop. If they're not deserving of criticism for having hundreds of billions of dollars in liquid cash and hundreds of unsolved problems, I fail to see how the plight of Vizio or Zynga really matters by comparison.