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Re:Tim Cook says Facebook's collection of user data 'shouldn... by gaius on Sunday March 25, 2018 @02:04PM (#16673469)
Apple, Microsoft and Amazon will be perfectly unperturbed when the so-called “attention economy” goes away. They are real companies offering real goods and services.
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Re:Tim Cook says Facebook's collection of user data 'shouldn... by htormey on Sunday March 25, 2018 @02:35PM (#16673659)
I think it will hit them as well, just not to the same extent as Facebook & Google.

Microsoft owns LinkedIn, which is an advertising company. I also seem to recall that they make a reasonable chunk of change from search advertising and other online properties.

According to this link they took in a little over 6 billion in advertising revenue last year:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/725388/microsoft-corpora...

According to this link, amazon took in somewhere in the region of 1.7 billion in revenue from mainly advertising last quarter alone:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/725388/microsoft-corpora...

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Re:Tim Cook says Facebook's collection of user data 'shouldn... by ModernMech on Sunday March 25, 2018 @06:01PM (#16674903)
Microsoft for example has several billion dollar businesses aside from Windows, Office, and enterprise. Their Surface and Xbox hardware, for example, pulls in that much revenue each. They'll be fine.
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Re:Tim Cook says Facebook's collection of user data 'shouldn... by donttrack on Sunday March 25, 2018 @03:03PM (#16673875)
Yeah, Google and Facebook are not tech companies. They are mainly ad companies run by social justice activists. Their only purpose is to stuff ads down peoples throats.
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Re:Tim Cook says Facebook's collection of user data 'shouldn... by gaius on Monday March 26, 2018 @04:58AM (#16677577)
Google could exist in a diminished form off their cloud and office suite. But e.g. GMail is not a viable business without slurping user data.
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Re:Tim Cook says Facebook's collection of user data 'shouldn... by earenndil on Sunday March 25, 2018 @02:28PM (#16673610)
I don't know about completely. They still all show ads and collect user data. But they will be less affected than some others (google).
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