Follow the money, they don’t profit off spying on you selling your data to other companies, this makes them the lesser evil but they’re still evil for sure.
Where is that in their revenue streams? Nearly all of their profit comes from selling hardware and services.
You could argue they profit off insecure default settings, such as having Google as the default search engine or analyzing Siri recordings or how they use aggregated usage data, but to date I’m not aware of Apple either profiting directly off data it collects from users, or selling that data to third-parties.
Selling ads or user data is nowhere in their business model. They don’t need to, and the trust they risk losing from doing so is a powerful detractor. They’re not perfect, but as far as corporations go they could be much, much worse. They’re not comparable to Google in terms of privacy at all.
Turns out the answer is No, Apple doesn’t sell your data to third-party advertisers. The Cupertino giant possesses the exclusive rights of showing you ads on the App Store and other apps. This means your data is used by Apple to show ads, but not sold to any other advertisers…
1: Google’s entire business model includes selling your data and activity and advertise to you based on that. They have been sued for lying about this and had to settle.
2: Yes, this is directly stated in the setup screen for devices as on by default, which you can opt-out from then or at any time.
3: Let’s get mad at them for doing that when they actually do it.
4: Not sure there are many “rabid” users anymore, or at least here anyway. But there’s a difference between defending a company and flat out calling bs on an bs accusation.
I do not understand why people like making up reasons to hate on a corporation when there are so many other legitimate reasons to hate that corporation instead.
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tbf i don’t think apple is any better
Follow the money, they don’t profit off spying on you selling your data to other companies, this makes them the lesser evil but they’re still evil for sure.
they do profit off it. its in their license agreement.
Where is that in their revenue streams? Nearly all of their profit comes from selling hardware and services.
You could argue they profit off insecure default settings, such as having Google as the default search engine or analyzing Siri recordings or how they use aggregated usage data, but to date I’m not aware of Apple either profiting directly off data it collects from users, or selling that data to third-parties.
Selling ads or user data is nowhere in their business model. They don’t need to, and the trust they risk losing from doing so is a powerful detractor. They’re not perfect, but as far as corporations go they could be much, much worse. They’re not comparable to Google in terms of privacy at all.
Here’s a source confirming as much: https://fossbytes.com/apple-data-collection-explained/
i don’t think even google sells it outright.
they collect it, use it to train ai. not to mention how 3-letter agencies get it too.
selling it outright is a matter of time.
i also absolutely do not get why apple fanboys defend them so rabidly. its just a phone like any other.
1: Google’s entire business model includes selling your data and activity and advertise to you based on that. They have been sued for lying about this and had to settle.
2: Yes, this is directly stated in the setup screen for devices as on by default, which you can opt-out from then or at any time.
3: Let’s get mad at them for doing that when they actually do it.
4: Not sure there are many “rabid” users anymore, or at least here anyway. But there’s a difference between defending a company and flat out calling bs on an bs accusation.
I do not understand why people like making up reasons to hate on a corporation when there are so many other legitimate reasons to hate that corporation instead.
To each their opinion.