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Nothing is really free if you're getting from a large publicly traded company. They also don't use Siri to target ads towards the user such as Google and Facebo

• prawn 15y ago
  They don't, so far. In the future, they will sell analytics, access to be included and potentially ads.
  • jbrennan 15y ago
    Will they? Any reference to back that up? I don't think Apple has done this in the past, and I don't think they've said they will either.
    • throwaway64 15y ago
      Apple themselves acknowledge that they use location information gleaned from iphones to build a location database. https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/04/27Apple-Q-A-on-Location-Data.html https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/04/27Apple-Q-A-on-Loca...
    • prawn 15y ago
      Excuse my direct language, I should've phrased it more clearly as a thoughtful guess. Seems like an obvious bet too. At some point in the past they hadn't broken into the phone market, or had a music store, right? Think of it a bit like how Google created AdWords/AdSense alongside their search engine. I got a 4s the other day and outside of the US at this point, Siri is pretty basic. Can't ask for directions. Can't find a business. Too many things get directed to a basic web search which I could've pulled up myself in the time being. Didn't take too long to realise how quickly they could monetise the experience my charging for third-party involvement, for data, etc. "When's the next SportsTeam game?" "April 1, do you need tickets?" Apple is a company. They're there to make money. I can't see how they could not take that route if they handled it very carefully.