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Who pays for the costs of private cloud compute, is it free of charge for the iPhone owner (at least until they turn it into a subscription)? What about second

• deleted 2y ago
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• repler 2y ago
  Exactly - nothing is for free. They explicitly state that PCC data gets destroyed after a response is returned. Are the anonymized queries (minus user data context) worth anything? It’s gotta be some kind of subscription/per query charge model to pay for the servers, electricity, and bandwidth.
• AnonHP 2y ago
  > Who pays for the costs of private cloud compute, is it free of charge for the iPhone owner (at least until they turn it into a subscription)? My guess is that this is similar to how iOS upgrades are “free”, how Apple Maps is free, how iMessage is free, how iCloud Mail is free, etc. To a good extent, it’s all paid for by the price paid by the customer for the hardware. I’d also wager that there will be a paid service/subscription that will get baked into iCloud+ at some point in time (maybe a year from now). This will offer a lot more and Apple will try to attract more customers into its paid services net.