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
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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Apple would be more successful ensuring it is a market leader (in terms of market share) that can demand privacy protections instead of their current course of being the privacy friendly company (if you can afford it).
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Apple knows that software is speech, and now they must recognize they cannot be the sole arbiter of what people are allowed to say on their devices lest they become a collaborator, or enemy, with every world government seeking to control speech.
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