I cannot see why Alphabet would pay for this going forward....everyone would still use Google as their default in any event (everyone already does)....you could understand Microsoft paying for bing to be used?
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I cannot see why Alphabet would pay for this going forward....everyone would still use Google as their default in any event (everyone already does)....you could understand Microsoft paying for bing to be used?
1. Not really because nobody buys Samsung for privacy.
2.not really. Samsung sells a lot of cheap phones to consumers who value price over privacy, apple does not sell any phones below $400.
3. if your talking about the $400 and up smartphone market, then no. Samsung does not sell more than apple they sell considerably less.
1. How much the phone cost have nothing to do with privacy , it's the software that is the issue here
2. There is no 2 or three, cause 1 is a fact
What has the price of a phone got to do with privacy? 90% of folks don’t pick a phone because of privacy, no matter what Apple claims, if it were so, then their message isn’t working because Apple are selling less and less phones. If your argument holds true, then the 90% market share of android means either folks don’t care / know / believe Apple spin / or in their mind there is no difference. If there is a difference, clearly 90% won’t pay for it
Yes it does. Consumers that purchase budget android devices value the price over privacy.
How Android Phones Hide Missed Security Updates From You
https://www.wired.com/story/android-phones-hide-missed-security-updates-from-you/
“We find that there’s a gap between patching claims and the actual patches installed on a device. It’s small for some devices and pretty significant for others,” said Nohl. “Sometimes these guys just change the date without installing any patches. Probably for marketing reasons, they just set the patch level to almost an arbitrary date, whatever looks best.”
Read more at MobileSyrup.com: Some Android manufacturers haven’t told the full truth about security patches
It’s is a very accurate statement to make because they purchase smartphones android updates either through the os or through security updates.
That makes 2 and 3 extremely relevant.
The cheaper the phone the less likely will it will be patched either through a security update or is update.
It’s not apple spin, it was discovered by independent researchers. Link is in the post above.
Apple sells plenty of iPhones and more customer are holding on to their iPhones for longer due to hardware and regular iOS updates.
Apples active installed base has grown to 1.4 billion.
That’s not a small number. There are more iPhones on iOS 12 than there are on android pie and Oreo combined. So yes security, privacy and updates are important to apple an thier customers, more so than android.
What are you talking about? I‘ve never logged into a google account to use the search engine and my searches work. I don’t have any google apps on my machines.
Well most users use the default search engine. I mean that's what many Apple fans here preach. They dont want to download extra apps or do any extra steps / customization. So I believe if the default search engine was duck duck go many iPhone users would continue using that. However, Apple accepted payment from Google for Google to take your data. If Apple loves to preach privacy so much they shouldnt be endorsing Google search engine by making it their default, should they?
What kind of stance / message is Apple sending?
I mean you can continue to defend Apple but the fact remains they are indirectly selling your data. Or putting it nicely, they are assisting the data seller to obtain more opportunities to sell their customer base data.
Siri default search engine is Google as well lol
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Again, what are you talking about? Safari has never directed me to a web site for me to sign in when I do searches.
Sorry it's hard for you to understand.
Maybe you're just in denial that Apple sold Google your user data.
“The fault” That’s an interesting phrase. Is the threat (the person that exploits a vulnerability) the person at fault, or as you claim, the company that built the system the threat is exploiting? I know it’s easy for people that have little experience with information security, or programming, or systems integration, or technology, to jump to conclusions. So how did you arrive at Apple as the point of blame?
If you built a car and allowed someone to drive it, and they run someone over, you’d obviously be a murderer, right?
Well since I’m using duck duck go apple still gets a huge check and I get to keep my privacy. See how that works.
The Huge check apple gets that’s for default search, data mining customers that’s all google.
Not quite. The bug was in dead code that would actually crash the phone when being used and that should never have made it into the OS. And the bug existed for years. That means that certain 'community' (what community?) has been targeted for years and been hacked for years.
Or maybe that 'community' was some a community of the terrorist persuasion and the hackers were 'good guys' state actors. It's not beyond state actors to try to get programmers in places in companies like Apple and Google where they can actually influence the existence of bugs and thus introduced vulnerabilities. The list of web sites would give some of that away.
I'm really curious what 'community' has been targeted here and what websites were compromised.
Another false equivalency.
What Google gets is very limited. Absolutely zero identifying information about the user or device used. How can Google be getting “my” information if there’s nothing about “me” in the data?
The first I think is incorrect. It affected also Facebook, Apple and other vendor's apps as the exploit was pretty generic.
The latter is probably also incorrect as it was suggested that the exploits focused on a certain community. If that is a community of brave democratic dissidents in some dictatorial country, or it is a community of evil terrorists being targeted by 'good guys' we do not know. And that category of sites is not visited by a 'community', but by a substantial part of the entire internet population.
I’m still waiting for you to answer my previous question.
Where in iOS does Apple ask me to sign in to a Google account in order to select Google as the default search engine?
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It was probably a state actor monitoring its citizens or something similar. That’s why it didn’t show up for so long because it was targeted at a specific group.
You’re conflating a whole bunch of things in order to attempt to substantiate some negative points against Apple. That is the issue with this post, which is nothing more than a continued criticism from you of just about everything Apple.
What users say and what they do are irrelevant. What matters is how the internet works. Or is google just some noname brand that nobody uses anyway. I don’t particularly like a whole lot of customization but lumping in picking a search engine with customization is just continued folly and disingenuous at that.
More lies. Show me where Apple is selling their “customer base data” to Google.
I’m not at all confused about not having to sign on to any website to do searches.
The verge has a list of them
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The verge has a list of them