Going from what I wrote to admonishing Apple for making very profitable decisions goes a long distance, a very, a very long distance.
"Going from what I wrote to admonishing Apple for making very profitable decisions"
Seriously, just stop with the silly argument of profit. As a company Google, Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, Facebook, Amazon etc etc all make "very profitable" decisions. Shockingly very profitable usually means a better product for consumers. See how that works?
And to cover the rest of the varying silliness of "I'm here to tell everyone Apple isn't perfect" and "Apple cares more about profit". They too are silly, unserious sloganeering.
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Systematically trimming down creators sovereignty over their products and customers agency for the sake of ones profit was my core subject matter. This considering that is not the only way to highly prosper neither it is the core value of their success."
That's a great appeal to emotion. You are speaking of their shouldn't be the walled ecosystem, shouldn't be too much privacy security or both?
If it's privacy security than you put forth a very eloquent response to disguise an anti privacy stance. If you want monetized data mining then you have the largest mobile platform in the world, Android, to go ply your wares.
If it's the walled ecosystem then let me respond as eloquently: my consumer choice of a security first ecosystem/platform isn't negotiable simply for the betterment of you. Regarding the security first platform for developers? Here's the rules now go develop within the rules. Plenty of developers have made a lot of money within the Apple ecosystem. For your own platform choice, developers have also made plenty of money. With Apple it may be harder to put forth their hard effort products. On your choice, developer hard work may be easier and it may also be more easily ripped off. Welcome to the real world where nothing is or will be perfect. Either way we will not change to suit you. That you feel oddly entitled to demand we change for you, that should be and is of no importance. Understood?
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o be honest is something that is getting me by surprise as at the center Apple success aren’t at all these principles as far as I understood the company … People never opted for Apple because its a closed system, it has always been a trade off. Considering Apple history I was expecting that from other companies."
Another appeal to emotion. So the bubble is burst for you. The truth is out, Apple didn't go into business to win warm and cuddly admiration awards from you/the rest of the vocal Internet anti Apple crowd. In a shocking! dubious move Apple decided/decides to put out products because they think users will like them which leads to Apple making money. The more consumers the more money they could make (shhh, we don't want Google and Samsung to know this!). So here is a variation appeal to emotion: This Apple money also disseminates to the massive amount of stockholders/401k holders, Apple employees, staggering number of Apple vendors, big number of third party developers, numerous tertiary businesses. There's a fairly large city in California in southern Alameda county. When Apple was making decisions that didn't make money, the lower part of that city looked concerningly un-busy. Employees, restaurants nearby, stores nearby, shipping companies, repair companies, custodial companies, building maintenance companies etc etc etc ---- They could all say 'well, Apple is swell! Now let's think of somehow someway to make next month's rent'.
Once again, the profit argument is laughably silly.
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As of mining data … well, when customers deposit all their data interactions in a single broker and it uses that to strong harm others to share their revenue, mining data or controlling user interactions is just a question of semantics. In the end its mining their customers. Its well known fact that Apple uses customers data to deliver targeted ads across their services (Apple News, App Store …). So they do data mining, and they haven’t hidden this from anyone. Do they follow you over the browser?… I’m still not that sure … but they did sell that part to a company that does do that for billions per year … Google."
Question of semantics is it? I'll say this, your anti Apple stance is more low key and eloquent than many others I've read. That's a compliment. But what you just said is more commonly stated (by the Internet anti Apple crowd): "they all do it!". Semantics was just used by another anti Apple response to me. "Semantics" going to be the new tact? No more "they all do it"?
So let's put a few facts out there so you my friend can be much more clear on the subject. Apple and Google are factually and undeniably the two biggest companies in the world in their respective fields.
Apple is the largest consumer electronic company in the world. The only reason they are factually the largest consumer electronics company in the world because they generate more sales than any other company on consumer electronics hardware. They also generate a minority of money through other means, overwhelmingly services such as Apple Music, Apps, AppleCare etc. They make almost nothing on advertising (it's their in their PL).
Google is the largest advertising company in the world. They are factually the largest advertising company in the world because they generate more sales than any other company via advertising revenue. (side note, their advertising is so lucrative because they are able to profile every user to unseen granularity. They are able to target advertising to hundreds of millions//billion people because they have incredibly detailed habits and tendencies
of the individual. This is something unseen in the history of mankind). This money makes up approximately 70% of their money generation. They also make money from consumer electronic hardware sales, services and cloud, software licensing among other.
Now that we have gotten the indisputable facts (don't do it! these are indisputable facts!) out of the way, I'm not going to go into what individual information is and is not gathered by each company. This is by their own admission/publicly available agreements/notices. But 1, you already tried to use Google Map and Apple Maps as 'they all do it', I factually and indisputably proved you wrong, you disregarded it. B I know the anti Apple argument already will be 'just because Apple says they don't do it and they don't make money off it, that doesn't mean they don't. they all do it!' (another unprovable slogan).
So I'll save what each company is fairly clear about what data they gather on users and what options they provide to disable seeing that information.
Gee, I wonder who will win the privacy security argument
