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Re:TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services fr... by jacobush on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @03:58AM (#23842459)
There is some difference though. You can turn off iCloud and then device lock an Apple phone and make it rather secure. No such option exists for an Android phone. I agree with your general idea though, but I want to nuance. Apple gets too much credit for their privacy efforts, and Google gets too little shit.

Apples efforts only look good compared to Amazon, Google and Microsoft, but that's because they are so bad.

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Re:TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services fr... by three_seagrass on Thursday July 16, 2020 @09:10PM (#23865871)
Android does not have an iCloud equivalent, so naturally Android is not going to have a setting to disable sharing cloud data with the Chinese government. Google Drive doesn't work in China because Google isn't kowtowing the way Apple is.
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