Yea... the thing about that is there are facts that exist in this world. Care to elaborate on your claim that Apples business model is based data collection? I’d like your explanation as to how Apple has been lying to the SEC and FTC for so long, you know...insisting that Apple sells hardware for the vast, vast, VAST majority of its revenues.
No, can you please just leave the stuff I use alone? And if you don't like it, don't use it? The only "well-crafted regulation" you need is a mega fine on FB for introducing literal spyware into Messenger on Android. I thought that was already illegal.
Old versus new? They’re entirely different.
So are you saying before Amazon, Google, Facebook et al came along selling adverts/data Apple was as cheap as any other computer company? When there was no market for data Apple didn't charge more "to make up the difference"?
It’s teally telling that Zuck has had to publicly apologize for data/privacy issues every year going back to his days at college. Every time he says they’ll try harder, yet somehow enforcement of their legally binding privacy settlements in 2011 never happens. Why? BECAUSE FACEBOOK HAS ALWAYS BEEN A SURVEILLANCE PLATFORM USED BY THE US’S INTELLIGENCE SERVICES. You’re not going to take action against a program you use every day.
Social media is extremely new. Yes people who are technically literate or have an inkling of how surveillance works knows this, but we live in a world where the vast majority of people have no idea how a computer, let alone the internet, work. To put the onus on the average citizen to not fall for a data collection platform fronting as a place to see your grandkids pictures is entirely unfair.
The reality here is that advertisers don't care about reaching people who can't afford to pay.
Those that care about you give you options to choose from. The ones that only care about themselves want you to buy a smartphone with Facebook built into the operating system where you can not uninstall it. Thankfully for Apple we do not have to worry about stuff like this from Facebook. Facebook pays companies who are struggling financially like HTC to sell their smartphones with Facebook built into the operating system of which can not be uninstalled from smartphone.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has countered the argument that companies without an ad-supported business model are better off.
"You know, I find that argument, that if you're not paying that somehow we can't care about you, to be extremely glib," said Zuckerberg, in an interview with Vox's Ezra Klein. "And not at all aligned with the truth."
"The reality here is that if you want to build a service that helps connect everyone in the world, then there are a lot of people who can't afford to pay. And therefore, as with a lot of media, having an advertising-supported model is the only rational model that can support building this service to reach people."
Last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook told Recode's Kara Swisher and MSNBC's Chris Hayes that his company "could make a ton of money if we monetized our customer," but added "we've elected not to do that."
Apple's business model is primarily focused on selling products like iPhones and iPads to customers, rather than targeting users with advertisements based on their personal information. Facebook, on the other hand, is a free service that relies on ads for a significant portion of its revenue.
Cook, who said Apple views privacy as a "human right," believes that Facebook shouldn't have the ability to collect as much information as it does.
"The ability of anyone to know what you've been browsing about for years, who your contacts are, who their contacts are, things you like and dislike and every intimate detail of your life -- from my own point of view it shouldn't exist," said Cook, speaking at the annual China Development Forum last week.
Zuckerberg argued that while Facebook is "squarely in the camp of the companies that work hard to charge you less and provide a free service that everyone can use," it doesn't mean the company doesn't care about people.
"I don't think at all that that means that we don't care about people. To the contrary, I think it's important that we don't all get Stockholm Syndrome and let the companies that work hard to charge you more convince you that they actually care more about you. Because that sounds ridiculous to me."
Zuckerberg's comments follow last month's revelation that data firm Cambridge Analytica used personal information harvested from more than 50 million Facebook profiles without permission to build a system that could target U.S. voters with personalized political ads based on their psychological profile.
Cook said the situation "is so dire and has become so large that probably some well-crafted regulation is necessary." He also made the mic-drop comment that he "wouldn't be in this situation" if he were Zuckerberg.
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Some of what you say is true, but the Trump campaign had zero grassroots, get out the vote, etc. None of that existed. All of it was based on rallies, Twitter, Facebook and free TV news/press coverage. Now you can say that none of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica and/or Russia activity was enough to flip the 70K votes needed to win Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan thus winning the EC, but with a 70K difference in three states it is hard to prove or disprove what made the difference
