Re:Apple’s $1T Milestone Reflects Rise of Powerful Megacompa...
by scarface74 on Friday August 03, 2018 @01:17PM
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They sit in the middle of any content you purchase; instead of your New York Times subscription supporting journalism, 30% of that goes to Apple instead for the privilege of owning "your" device. They intercept your text messages to provide iMessage. Who knows what happens to things I've stored on iCloud after I delete them.
The content producers have choices.
- they can force you to pay for content outside of the App Store (Spotify, Amazon)
- they can allow you to pay for content either in the App Store at a higher price or outside of the App Store at s lower price (CBS All Access)
- they can allow you to buy content in or out of the App Store for the same price (Udemy, Hulu, Netflix).
As far as “intercepting your text messages”, they are end to end encrypted where neither Apple nor your carriers can see the messages. Unlike Google’s latest text messaging app.
But as a user, I know my transaction cost - the price I pay to Apple. With Google and Facebook, the price is tracking, embedded ads, crapware (in the case of Android phones), etc.
The content producers have choices.
- they can force you to pay for content outside of the App Store (Spotify, Amazon)
- they can allow you to pay for content either in the App Store at a higher price or outside of the App Store at s lower price (CBS All Access)
- they can allow you to buy content in or out of the App Store for the same price (Udemy, Hulu, Netflix).
As far as “intercepting your text messages”, they are end to end encrypted where neither Apple nor your carriers can see the messages. Unlike Google’s latest text messaging app.
But as a user, I know my transaction cost - the price I pay to Apple. With Google and Facebook, the price is tracking, embedded ads, crapware (in the case of Android phones), etc.