Re:Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales
by nicky0 on Friday December 30, 2016 @04:39PM
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Actually no, privacy is a point of difference between Apple and the other companies. Apple has very different philosophy regarding user data. Generally they try to keep it on your phone and they don't suck everything up into their datacenter, as they aren't in the business of selling ads. That's why their "intelligent assistant" stuff isn't as good as Google's.
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Re:Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales
by X86BSD on Friday December 30, 2016 @05:01PM
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Google sells your data for $$. It is their main income stream. Apple doesn't. They don't want your data and don't enter markets in fact because they don't want to monetize you or your data.
Re:Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales
by kalleboo on Saturday December 31, 2016 @12:57AM
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Google sells access to your data for $$ (i.e., ads). They wouldn't sell the data itself, that would devalue it.
Re:Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales
by lostlogin on Saturday December 31, 2016 @01:56AM
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It's somewhat reassuring seeing Apple stand up to the FBI, which I haven't seen any other company of their size do. There may be other examples but I've missed them.
Re:Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales
by Godel_unicode on Saturday December 31, 2016 @03:06AM
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Potentially relevant (although less so with no more fire phone)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/...
Re:Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales
by Infinitesimus on Saturday December 31, 2016 @07:03AM
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Didn't Apple recently start selling targeted ads for the app store?
Not the same as Google/FB of course but the fact that they can target an ad based on some profile means they have the data.
Re:Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales
by tomwilson on Saturday December 31, 2016 @09:23AM
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They're not really targeted. You just purchase keywords for your app and then they can display it at the top if someone searches for those words. They're not doing anything fancy like seeing what other apps you have or using any of the information they may or may not have about you.