Great...the phone's key feature, and Amazon's key reason for making it...is focused on making it more likely for me to buy things on Amazon.
Meanwhile, Apple is hard at work trying to make great hardware to change the world without an ulterior motive of data mining or eCommerce. I'll stick with Apple. Thanks.
you do realize that What you think Amazon's main business is also Apple's.
your premise in your post is fundamentally flawed because you assume that apple has altruistic intentions.
They are no different than the other companies.
What they did differently was have an extremely charismatic leader for most of their existence that you WANTED to believe. When Jobs talked, people believed the words from his mouth without question.
this is called the Apple Reality Distortion Field.
meanwhile, Apple has admittingly participated in exactly the same corporate behaviour that virtually every other player in the game plays.
right down to attempting to lock you in to their system.
Straight from the words of internal Apple documents released as part of the 2nd Patent trial:
"tie all of our products together, so we further lock customers into our ecosystem"
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1722300/
Apple also Datamines:
http://advertising.apple.com/
and eCommerce is absolutely something they're doing. Through bringing in in store payment digitally through iphones and taking %'s off all app store sales. They are absolutely in the business of e-commerce
listen, I dont judge apple here. There's nothing WRONG with all of it. doing such activities is amoral and does help advance technology for everyone. As long as these companies keep competing with eachother to outdo eachother, we have competition that drives further technology everyday, and in the end, WE ALL WIN
