@zackwhittaker I am so glad I never bought the Apple bullshit.

@zackwhittaker mostly marketing with some truth to it but of which a western marketing campaign in china they went belly up on the privacy issue there.

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It's squared by the always superlative and overriding mantra that "profit is a fundamental Corporate/shareholder right" ...

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@zackwhittaker maybe they meant "we have a fundamental right to our user's privacy?"

@zackwhittaker I think the hypocrisy goes at least back to AirTags, which are actually awesome technology (I use them!) but which definitely create a public privacy hazard.

The principle at play seems to be that Apple believes in privacy for Apple users. They don't really care about the implications for non-users and the public at large.

@zackwhittaker we need another phone os and more phone providers

Aka real competition

@zackwhittaker Apple: “Your privacy is important to us. We want to find out what you are trying to be private about.”

@zackwhittaker unpopular opinion: Apple had that stance only because it's a market differentiator + they did not have the data analytics do otherwise.

@zackwhittaker I am quite sure they will uphold their most cherished value, over-profiting from fools, higher than other, alleged values or principles.

@zackwhittaker Jesus Jobs has long passed away, so no more rights to the peasants.

@zackwhittaker It changed my thinking about Vision Pro (which was somewhere along the lines of "useless and expensive") when I heard from blind people who were able to use it to cook from a recipe. I can't read the article -- not a Bloomberg subscriber. However, I can imagine ways that this could work with privacy preservation: E.g., if facial recognition only worked for people in mutual contact lists. That might be really helpful as an assistive device? I am not saying "give Apple the benefit of the doubt." They burned that when they banned the ICE reporting apps. But I can think of a way that it could work and respect privacy.

@zackwhittaker Like all other companies they mean the privacy of their paying customers.

@zackwhittaker Apple is a corporation and as such, doesn't have a stance, that was a marketing slogan. No more.

@zackwhittaker At the top, the only driver is "line go up".

Screw those principles, if the lounge doesn't go up they have other ones in a filling cabinet.

@zackwhittaker it is a fundamental right! They’re the only big tech company that doesn’t seem to poorly handle personal data. Are Google and Meta any better when it comes to data privacy?