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Think about it this way. Whatever it costs to collect and store this data is some absurdly trivial fraction of Apple's entire value. Imagine if you personally
by Teever 1y ago
Think about it this way.
Whatever it costs to collect and store this data is some absurdly trivial fraction of Apple's entire value.
Imagine if you personally could do the same to someone for an equivalent fraction of your net worth. Would you not try and maximize the number of people you collect data on? Just out of pure curiosity -- even if you couldn't sell the data?
- jqpabc123 1y agosome absurdly trivial fraction of Apple's entire value. Sorry, that logic doesn't hold. Charging users $1 per month for an iCloud subscription capable of backing up your phone is some absurdly trivial fraction of Apple's entire value --- yet they still do it. Just out of pure curiosity I think it's pretty well established that large corporations are mainly motivated by money --- not curiosity. But suggesting otherwise does tend to validate my point --- the extreme viewpoint needed to rationalize the actions of a company that touts privacy.
- Teever 1y agoThe data we're talking about has a strategic value even if its monetary value isn't quite so clear at this point in time. Apple may not sell this personal data, but it can and likely does use bhavioral insights to optimize its products to increase engagement and ultimately ecosystem lock-in. These are indirect forms of monetization that accrue into revenue over time and it's hard to gauge their success right now. So Apple like all big companies collect as much data as they can and store it because they know that the costs of doing so are trivial and the potential benefits are potentially very high.
- jqpabc123 1y agoSo in other words, they're tracking you now just so they can monetize your data later if they choose to --- for example, if they decide they *really* need to goose profits a little. This doesn't exactly give me a warm privacy feeling.