> Apple doesn't need Facebook
I'm not sure that's true. I suspect the absence of Facebook's apps on the iPhone would be a pretty significant blow to Apple's long-term market share.
WhatsApp has >1.5 billion users, Messenger nearly that many.
(Would it also hurt Facebook? Absolutely.)
I actually don't think it would effect it long term, only short term. People would use something else.
I have been critical of Apple in the past, but given the choice of Apple or Facebook, I'd choose Apple.
And I don't even own an Apple device.
I guess I just believe that people still place the quality of their products over any particular service.
Re:Facebook: Free as in Bullshit
by neodymiumphish on Saturday December 19, 2020 @11:09AM
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I don't know that "[Apple] benefit from government regulation around privacy." Considering they are leading the charge on commercial devices and privacy, at least among the big tech companies. It benefits them more to be the only one demonstrating this focus, some proof to support this claim, and no financial benefit to collecting/leaking customer privacy data. None of the other tech companies can claim any 2 of those 3 points.
Until a time that Apple's main source of income is selling your private data, I guess I'm hard pressed to believe they're trying to enable their competitors who do.