I think you can actually see the beginning of our current circumstances with Apple Maps. It’s a clear point where Apple’s & their customers’ interests diverged. The selling point of Apple Maps was clearly “we’re trying to get off Google”, *not* we’re releasing this cool new thing
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Apple’s on the right side of history more often than most companies. They’ve stood up to major world governments on data privacy issues.
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If Apple’s strategy to fight for user privacy is to try to do Dropbox, Maps, Gmail, Netflix, *everything* in house, it will lose through attrition.
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I think it has a lot more to do with Apple being pissed about the existence of Android, if you recall the context at the time.
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