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Re:Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Th... by ariwilson on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @04:47PM (#18454336)
If he was being honest, Cook would have said: "Privacy to us is a comparative advantage, because we can't make world class web products."

You can see the difference between these two statements in action in cases where Apple absolutely needs government approval and market share (China) or a good product (search engine / Google), they immediately ditch this "human right".

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Re:Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Th... by chowchowchow on Thursday November 15, 2018 @02:01AM (#18457440)
That comparative advantage has also made them the most valuable company in the world so your normative lens may be a bit biased — it seems like one could easily say googles comparative disadvantage is their business model precludes then from offering lucrative high margin privacy-protecting products.

The point about maps feels rather non germane as apple does have its own maps product.

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Re:Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Th... by ariwilson on Thursday November 15, 2018 @04:37PM (#18463629)
What made them the most valuable company in the world was selling billions of <very expensive> phones, not their stance on privacy.

I didn't say anything about maps.

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Re:Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Th... by chowchowchow on Thursday November 15, 2018 @04:46PM (#18463715)
> What made them the most valuable company in the world was selling billions of phones, not their stance on privacy.

Can't just be that as others sell more billions of phones, right?

> I didn't say anything about maps.

You're right, I misread that part of your post.

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