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Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'Privacy is a Fundamental Human Right'
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The companies that steal private user-data are the most profitable companies on the planet. They will be allowed to continue, for that one reason. Wall Street loves them.
It would be more than enough if they just stopped bragging about something they don't practice.
Apple shouldn't be bragging about their privacy policy. At this point they are just hypocritical.
I disagree, they are candid about their privacy policy. They are following local laws in China.
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They are forthcoming about their policy. They have to follow local laws. Do you want them to close up shop in China so you feel better?
That's what happens when you get up at 3:45am every day after sleeping for maybe 5-6 hours.
We must, not should, point fingers at companies like Facebook, while making internet unbelievable!
Apple don't have your fingerprints or face. Try using your brain before your mouth.
That's exactly what you are saying though. As long as Apple allows an option to change search engines buried in the settings its okay to make Google the default and accept money. So they could accept money from Uber and Facebook and allow data mining on their platforum by offering an option to disable it in settings.
Apple is “on your side”! “Yeah, well as long as you pay our whopping price for our devices and our services, why wouldn’t we be?”
They are obliging to the Chinese law, so they can do business there. But it is with a cost... Apple gave the Chinese government the keys to their servers, so they can see and check what their citizens are doing. So for more revenue Apple just threw their privacy policy out the window.
Only you people that seems to have this irrational thoughts of some political agenda just because Apple supports gay pride. Tim Cook’s orientation doesn’t matter, and Apple supports various things (eg. product Red).
If you really don’t care, then don’t. Apple is doing this as Apple, not Tim pushing some agenda.
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It’s pointless to even try to talk with these people. Their heads are already firm in hatred towards Tim Cook, period. Apple can cure cancer for all we care, and these people will still hate Apple. They are so firm that they want companies like Google to invade their privacy that any company trying to reject that notion is unacceptable.
No, "most" people don't believe those things. Get off the internet and into the real world more often.
Wrong, how do they money on data? Other than getting money from Google for making their search default-which can be easily disabled.
Apple curing cancer? How do I sign up for this sermon? That sounds pretty realistic to me!
Aside from that, I just downloaded my Google data (all 3 GB of it), and Google only has my YouTube views. That's because as a consumer I didn't opt into everything and read the options to check/uncheck what I want them to track of me. Granted, perhaps they have information on me that they didn't reveal in my downloaded data. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple did the same.
Work for any service based conglomerate. You would have to be completely naive to think that no service company tracks your data whether it's private or not.
They are not service -based - there was an article on someone who asked and got all data Apple had on them, a ridculously small amount...
Yeah, there's never going to be anyone quite like Steve. He was a designer and a CEO visionary who had a good intuition for knowing what worked, what didn't, and how to balance form and function. He worked well with Jony and now Tim is trusting Jony to make these design decisions that Tim doesn't fully know the answers to. Jony is still learning and growing as a designer without Steve and I think he is learning some important lessons in Steve's absence.
To do business in China, Apple had to obey the government. Their privacy policy didn’t go out of the window. Can’t catch Apple on something the local government forced them to do.
Actually, I'd argue that removing VPNs from the Chinese App Store would be a bit more hypocrital.
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Or they could just buy China.
No reality is reality. If google wants to throw money at Apple let them. It doesn’t change the apple’s privacy policy or Google’s privacy policy whether google gives Apple no money, 10 cents or a billion dollars.