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The difference is that if Google stopped spying on people, they’d go bankrupt tomorrow. Apple don’t have to and wouldn’t miss a beat.
Apple’s competitive advantage over Microsoft was user experience; it’s competitive advantage over Google is privacy. Will prove as pivotal.
And UX and privacy are intimately related.
A spyware company like Google has to design for two audiences with orthogonal needs—that’s a huge UX handicap compared to designing for one.
@aral That doesn't stop them from being even more censorious than Google tho
@jilliancyork Indeed. And you know that my heart lies with freedom. :) But we have to understand these differences; it’s night and day.
@aral Sure but there's enough criticism to go around. It's not finite.
@jilliancyork Thank fuck for that, I was worried I was going to use it all up ;)
(Totally agree, btw.) :)
@aral is that why their stuff is ridiculously expensive? Users are paying to have their privacy rights respected?
@dbennettweb People are paying for a product. You either do that or you become the product. (Or it’s subsidised some other way; eg. govt.)
@aral Reflects in how they're valued by users and investors: Apple is worth just a bit more than Google and Facebook put together right now.
@aral Maybe but they still want you in their closed ecosystem and ultimately we will never know what their doing with the data
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