What about all your purchases on iTunes. Not match - iTunes.
So iOS is a baked in cost for Apple so it's not free. But Android is just free. The ability to rationalize is fantastic.
Anyone who thinks that Apple is any less interested in your anonymous data than Google is deluding themselves. The fact that Apple isn't nearly as successful at it doesn't mean they haven't been trying.
And as I said before - Google isn't the company you should be worrying about. Go read up on the company Axciom.
That's not true - both Google and Apple make money in different ways, each of which is quite obvious. Apple charges premiums on their devices for two reasons, (1) to keep their products in the "high-end" class status and (2) to MAKE MONEY. For Apple, its all about making money off of the hardware - sure they make a tidy amount on the app store, and iTunes and such, but the percentage is miniscule compared to the amount they make off of iPhones, iPads and Macs.
Google on the other hand charges what it costs them to make their devices. So how does the company stay in business? Even though we all would love for a company to simply give products away and not profit, that's not the way the world or business works. They get their profits from somewhere (and they are doing pretty well for themselves I might add) - they get them from advertising and information they gather from their user base.
Anyone who can't see THIS is delusional.