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I will never understand why people claim Apple is aggressively trying to monetize user data when their whole business model is not monetizing user data and they
by KennyBlanken 2y ago
I will never understand why people claim Apple is aggressively trying to monetize user data when their whole business model is not monetizing user data and they have moved towards device-side features and greater user privacy from Apple or anyone else.
For example, iPhones around the 11 or 12, and Apple Silicon Macs, gained the ability to do voice recognition for siri, and dictation, on-device. Apple servers are only used when Siri is asked to do something that would require it, like asking for a web search, the weather, etc.) OneDrive, Dropbox, and Google Drive all do not support E2EE. iCloud does.
Meanwhile Google is not only monetizing your data but also using you, your device, and your data plan as a free data collection platform for their services.
Notice that Apple rather famously told the FBI to go pound sand when they were asked for help decrypting a mass-shooter's cell phone?
Notice that you can shut off all of the user-sourced data (like traffic congestion and wifi/cellular network location data collection) on iOS, and there are no such controls on Android?
Did you notice that one company's devices are much cheaper than the other's, just like those "smart TVs" are much cheaper than "dumb" TVs were?
That's because to Google, you and your data is the product...
- fragmede 2y ago> I will never understand why people claim Apple is aggressively trying to monetize user data Because they are a company, and companies loooove money. And data is worth a lot of money. The App store has ads at the top of every search. Apple's had a taste of that money and, is the cynics are too be believed, it's only a matter of time before the whole company succumbs. If you think Apple is somehow genetically incapable of bad ideas, remember client side CSAM scanning?