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tl;dr - Data is the future (what Google is collecting); Apple squeezing manufacturers on price leading to poor working conditions is bad.
by rexf 15y ago
tl;dr - Data is the future (what Google is collecting); Apple squeezing manufacturers on price leading to poor working conditions is bad.
- martythemaniak 15y agotl;dr - Collecting data isn't evil, doing bad things is evil. Google hasn't done anything evil, by comparison Apple has and is celebrated for it.
- anonymoushn 15y agoRight, as long as we maintain that illegal no-poaching agreements are a good thing, we can all agree with this :)
- estel 15y agoNo, Tim says: > There are many things that Google does that I consider as violations of its "Don't be evil" mantram (including profiting from ads from content farms, spammers, IP thieves, et al), but collecting and analyzing user data isn't one of them
- cageface 15y agoEvil is perhaps too strong a word, but their cynical and disingenuous defense of their real names policy on G+ made it impossible for me to trust them to do the right thing with my information in the long term.
- silentOpen 15y agoCollecting this much personal data across this many domains of the users' lives means you will never know if Google has done something evil with your data or not. By removing the walls between the silos, Google's centralized data has become immensely more valuable for them and a huge vulnerability for its users.
- brudgers 15y agotl;dr - Google: based on our definition of 'is,' Google is not evil and Apple is.