Hang on a minute. You’re concerned about Apple’s continued business viability in spite of overwhelming evidence of their success, because unlike those guys over at Facebook and Google, they don’t make gobs of money by harvesting user data for free services, and your explaining your justifications by way of sources quoted by Business Insider?
Just so there’s some sort of accessibility-related edge to this nonsense, I’d just like to say that I feel very fortunate indeed that the most accessible platform also respects my privacy the most of all the mainstream proprietary platforms. Sure, I think Timmy-boy is telling a little white one when he says they don’t collect user data—of course they do, and they would rather you used their iCloud and store services, and will if necessary take steps to accidentally rope you into the family. But honestly, I infinitely prefer the completely optional wallet rape you get from Apple to the completely involuntary data raping practices of FarceBook and the great chocolate factory in the sky. Those two companies make you the product in exchange for little tasty morsels of mediocrity, and have done more to harm personal privacy than any other organisation with the possible exception of the NSA and GCHQ. So if the suggestion here is that Apple should take my data in addition to their excessive margins, then the person suggesting it is all about the money, plain and simple, and can sod right off. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
