Re:Apple’s ad network gets ‘preferential access to users’ da...
by xoa on Monday August 10, 2020 @11:54AM
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>To say otherwise is to say that just because Apple has vendor lock-in they deserve trust.
Incorrect, the whole point is that Apple doesn't have vendor lock-in. As I said there are great non-Apple options for every aspect of our lives (vastly better in many cases). If you choose to buy into Apple's platform however, then it's not a matter of "deserve", you DO trust them by definition. You have made a conscious choice to buy from a massively vertically integrated corporation that exerts significant hardware backed cryptographic control over the software ecosystem. That's not a bug, that's a feature for a lot of people, but it's one that depends entirely on (a specific, limited context sort of) trust in Apple.
To say otherwise is to say that just because Apple has vendor lock-in they deserve trust.