Re:Apple Could Be Working with Goldman Sachs on a Credit Card
by jessaustin on Thursday February 21, 2019 @11:54AM
(#19218214)
If Apple had a payment system of their own built into the OS, the perennial observations that Apple are less evil than Google because they track less customer data, would ring a bit more hollow.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Apple Could Be Working with Goldman Sachs on a Credit Card
by dkonofalski on Thursday February 21, 2019 @01:52PM
(#19219496)
Not really. Google takes your data and tracks and manages it on their servers. Apple's take, on the other hand, does all machine learning and data-processing on the device itself which means that it never leaves your control. This could still be the case for the majority of that payment data. Even the current iteration of Apple Pay creates a temporary card number for banks so that they can't track user behavior across purchases.