I do not know if many people, with brains that cannot comprehend
legalese, will take the time to read terms of service and user
agreements every time they are updated, if in fact they read them at all.
I have no clue if Apple has me on the receiving end of anything but
the great produicts I own. I do not get gobs of spam that I need to opt
out of like one company whose cable services I no longer use but they
cannot take no for an answer, so now and them I must opt out yet again
or continue to get bucket loads of offers eqch month.
Now that Paypal has split off from eBay as of July 1st, what I saw
of their new terms could be of great concern.
In a nutshell, they state that if you do not agree to accept bucket
loads of spam via texts and robocalls, feel free to close your Paypal
account.
The virtual universe we live in is a wide open environment. Danger
lurks in every nanobyte.
That said, of anyone is unhappy with Apple, or any other company,
they have a simple fix. Send everything to Davy Jone's Locker.
From The Believer. . .
By way of the Chariots of the
Gods cameth the Aliens who
dwelt amongst the humans,
and bringeth much knowledge.
On 6/5/2015 5:03 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote:
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 ex
cessive margins, then the person suggesting it is all about the money, plain
and simple, and can sod right off.
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