Apple's product is its users. All of the privacy changes are not to protect the privacy of their users, it's to ensure that there are no ways to access Apple device users without Apple being the middleman.
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> you can at least not typo the name of two of their flagship products ("Iphone and Ipad") Why not? Are we all beholden to the Apple marketing department style guide?
> Why not? Are we all beholden to the Apple marketing department style guide? Aren't they proper nouns?
If so, then Ipad and Iphone (or perhaps IPad and IPhone) are more grammatically correct: https://www.yourdictionary.com/articles/proper-noun-capitali...
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#23Apple's product is its users. All of the privacy changes are not to protect the privacy of their users, it's to ensure that there are no ways to access Apple device users without Apple being the middleman.
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#24Apple's product is its users. All of the privacy changes are not to protect the privacy of their users, it's to ensure that there are no ways to access Apple device users without Apple being the middleman.
Apple is the only big tech company left that even pretends to care about privacy and does even a half-assed job of it. If they're doing it in part for self-interested reasons, that's fine. It's better than nothing.
Their cloud storage product even has on-device encryption. Nobody else offers that, and in fact AFAIK Google and some of the others even have it listed as against their ToS. They're also working on privacy-respecting AI services and on-device AI as a first class citizen, which is different from any other company. All other AI products are designed for maximum privacy invasion.
Google, Microsoft, and the entire mobile app ecosystem are all actively hostile to user privacy and seek to undermine it as a primary mission and policy.
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> Are we all beholden to the Apple marketing department style guide? He should go the whole hog in this radical stance of civil disobedience and just spell the names entirely wrong!
It can certainly be obnoxious (I remember everyone calling Microsoft, M$ in the early 2000s), but if the goal is communicating an idea to an audience spelling it iPhone vs IPhone vs iphone vs Iphone doesn't make a difference. What I don't get is advocating for radical civil obedience to a company's preferred trademark names.
Heh... I hereby submit:
¥phone , ¥pad
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#26General computing devices like smartphones should allow users to install whatever they want without any cost or restrictions.
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#29Apple's product is its users. All of the privacy changes are not to protect the privacy of their users, it's to ensure that there are no ways to access Apple device users without Apple being the middleman.
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> Apple users are not purchasable in the same way that Google or Meta users are by advertisers.
You might have missed the memo but Apple is one of the largest advertising companies in the world.
Also, when Google pays Apple $20 billion a year to be the default search engine, what do you think they are paying for?
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#30Apple's product is its users. All of the privacy changes are not to protect the privacy of their users, it's to ensure that there are no ways to access Apple device users without Apple being the middleman.
Which is a great pitch to use Apple devices. The software community seems to hate it but I have a theory that one of the reasons Apple commands such a premium is because regular users don't actually like the software people all that much. Apple protecting user privacy for selfish reasons is a wonderful thing . It means they are going to keep doing it for as long as they can manage until the legislators step in.
I would hate to see a world where this sentiment is widespread when others are trying to fight for the right to repair and other causes and Apple is doing nothing but lobbying against them.