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Microsoft put ads in their OS menus. Kindof a stretch to "both sides" this one.
by daveguy 1y ago
Microsoft put ads in their OS menus. Kindof a stretch to "both sides" this one.
- JCattheATM 1y agoNo it isn't. The context is telemetry and spying, not built in advertising.
- daveguy 1y agoAnd none of the items in the original thread post were about telemetry. They were about functional requirements.
- ffsm8 1y agoI guess you didn't read the article then, there are entries for telemetry. He even helpfully listed the official use case next to the domain name that was accessed.
- daveguy 1y agoThread post. Not article post. Try to keep up.
- ffsm8 1y agoYou made the claim that apple didn't make any telemetry requests in response to someone pointing out the double standard for Apple. Yes the person further up in this thread lists features other then telemetry, but that's literally the double standard. It's also did telemetry, just like windows does. Did you unironically think windows phones home only for telemetry, and not for various features too? Because the article you're commenting on lists telemetry requests. Your comment makes straight up no sense.
- daveguy 1y agoOkay buddy. Enjoy your day.
- JCattheATM 1y agoThat's a stretch, but giving the benefit of the doubt, you alone say potahto, most here are saying potato.
- jtbayly 1y agoApple does too! Drives me crazy, although it’s not nearly as bad as Windows.
- naught0 1y agoI have never seen this. What ads are you referring to in MacOS?
- cornhole 1y agoThey keep trying to get me to buy iCloud space in the settings menu
- DrBenCarson 1y agoUh…where?
- ffsm8 1y agoYou don't see them if you're already paying for all Apple services. But otherwise, you get constantly nagged to get iCloud and also sometimes for their media and gaming subscriptions Finally, what people for some reason ignore: Apple has been an advertisement company ever since their app store became the majority share of their revenue.
- DrBenCarson 1y agoAh okay yeah I have Apple One so I wouldn’t see them Also, no, Apple makes nowhere close to a majority of its revenue from its App Store (source: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-how-apple-makes-its-391b-in-revenue/ https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-how-apple-makes-its...) 51% are iPhone sales 9% are wearables and home device sales 8% are Mac sales 7% are iPad sales A portion of the 25% that make up services and subscriptions is advertising, in addition to Apple Music, iCloud, Google’s search default payment (20B/yr), etc. Apple makes less than 5% of its revenue from advertising
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- theoreticalmal 1y agoPlus, the ads for Apple are like “buy our cloud storage solution” and the ads for MS are like “10 foods to make you SEXY this summer!” I’m not a fan of either, but one is significantly worse than the other
- politelemon 1y agoThat's a hyperbolic cherry picked comparison from different areas. If you compare the settings and start menu equivalent they are the same.