The point is that they don’t need to. They are not selling advertising, they are selling privacy as a service. E.g. Apple maps breaks apart your journey on their side so they can’t reconstruct your journey from a to b.

They may not need maps for this. They could use geolocation or “findMyDevice” service which may be collecting this data already. Right?

No no no, stop it, it's Apple and this word is the synonym to "privacy", you are not buying a device, it's like second mother, caring about you and protecting your privacy with angel wings.

That seems like a reasonable argument, and not hysterical snark.

Let's hope Siri will evolve better than the auto correct on iOS in this instance to interface to all these appliances.

Apple would be the only major FAANG company that doesn't need to do that, because they don't make their profits through ads.

Google and Nest on the other hand...

But if they dare to try to start a record label then Yoko Ono will put a quick stop to that.