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Apple Registers PrivacyIsImportant.com Domain Name
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When your products arent that compelling or different anymore, you have to come up with something that justifies the higher prices. It’s not the tech inside that put them above the competitors. So let’s use something vague like privacy because it’s invisible to the eye and very difficult to check.
Smart but vague.
TheMacDaddy1 makes a convincing argument. I don't understand why his argument so hard for you to understand and why you continue to think it's dumb.
Taking the privacy stance is easy for Apple (at least right now).
Really.
Google has given the world just as much value as Apple has, if not more. Its core product is completely free to use. In return, Google collects data on your search and behavior so it can better tailor product recommendations to you (ads). Collecting data is at the core of Google's business.
Apple has been a hardware company. It made the majority of its money selling you hardware packaged with custom software.
Of course it's easy for Apple to say that it "cares" about your privacy when data isn't at the core of their business model.
By the way, the reason Macrumors exists and you can post here for free is because of Google's ability to collect data and show you relevant ads.
Macrumors is powered by Google ads. It's also using Google Analytics which tracks you too.
Edit: You think DuckDuckGo cares about your privacy too? Nah, the founder of DuckDuckGo just saw a business opportunity to differentiate a bit and target a smaller segment of the population who don't want to be tracked for some reason and make some money.
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So why doesn’t Apple buy DuckDuckGo and make it the preferred search engine instead of google? Oh wait, they’ll miss billions and billions from google.
Double standards indeed.
Sometimes it's hard to grasp certain concepts when all some people do, is worship a company and its products. They will do anything to defend them. @TheMacDaddy1 makes very valid points, that are hard to deny, when using common sense, and taking a step back from being in defensive mode all the time.
Actually if one stopped being biased they can easily see at Apple you are not the product. And since there are some that will do anything to defend Apple that means at the other end there are those who will do anything to criticize Apple.
You as a consumer buy the product. Apple doesn’t take your purchase information and turn it into underwear, shavers or lipstick adverts.
Refer back to my post, especially the part about "defending Apple", as you seem guilty as charged. Not sure what the irrelevant part of your post has to do with mine... But keep on defending as you must.
If you want privacy you will have to pay for it. Gmail, Outlook etc are NOT free. Those services are paid for by advertisers who monetize your usage those products.
Apple tried advertising and failed. They know hey will never be able to outrun google or Facebook. So they try a different approach and the cheapest. Let the people believe your platform is safest all though the vulnerabilities found in their OS won’t get repaired unless it’s disclosed to the public and will hurt their ‘brand’.
In that vein, see the part in my post about criticizing Apple.
However you didn’t really address the question at hand. Only some subjective generalization about consumers who value Apple products and like what the company is doing.
That is not a double standard. Apple is consistent: you can do whatever you want via web browser, and apps must adhere to their own privacy policies which are clearly and accurately provided to the users on demand.
Actually, Apple still sells ads. https://searchads.apple.com/
Show your ads only to new customers, existing customers, users of your other apps, or to everyone. You can also refine your audience by gender, age, and show your ads only to devices located in specific geographic areas.
How the hell is that any different from what Google does? Except that Google is probably a lot better and more experienced at collecting the above data.
This is exactly why I’m consciously weaning off google. One gmail account, use bing when possible and limit Youtube and don’t use Facebook or Snapchat or instagram. Granted there are evils in every corner of the inter webs but I don’t want to give google the entire thing in a silver platter.
Again, you are missing the point that I made. No need to try and change the subject, or shift the focus of someone's OP.In that vein, see the part in my post about criticizing Apple.
Think about it like this... There are radicals around the world, who'd do anything to defend their beliefs. Does this make their beliefs true/right?
You quoted me originally, not the other way around, just fyi
You should stop coming to Macrumors as well and any website that has ads (most free websites do) or any website that uses Google Analytics (most websites use it).
Also, I hope you realize that Bing does the exact samething with tracking: https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/audience-targeting/universal-event-tracking
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They still do? Lol. I remember them saying they would go all in on ads... it was at the time Steve went nuclear on Android and Google Maps was replaced by Apple maps.
I think their streaming video service will follow the same route
But Macs and privacy are very important to us
Apple "loves" privacy...sort of. If you are a muslim terrorist in San Bernardino and you just slaughtered a bunch of your co-workers your iPhone is safe. If you're Roger Stone and haven't done anything then all your iCloud data is turned over to to the FBI in an instant.
Yes, my opinion is your original post is a hyperbolic one-sided generalization.
Oh come on... you also know very well, like me, that the average iPhone user doesn’t know or mind to change the standard search option in safari to DDG. If everyone was doing that, or Apple cared, google didn’t want to spend those billions on Apple.
Double standards indeed
Your typical response... Let's just drop it. No point in continuing a conversation, in which you just keep shifting the goal posts, like your other posts. Good day
Which makes me wonder how they get away with that billboard, is it at the least misleading and at worst a big fat lie?
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But the Facebook app (and others), does contradict Apples "what happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone" claim.
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Surely a compromise would be in clear native language a list of the data the app shares with the developers etc, and maybe more control, like we have with apps access to camera, microphone etc, so we can restrict the app further. I think people should be able to use wahtever app they like, but have the full, honest and clear information about the apps they use. I really wish more ethical developers were like the ones behind HeartWatch, and stated clearly, they dont share your info.