Re:Apple’s next big thing: A business model change
by anotherOneSound on Monday September 12, 2022 @01:47PM
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there is a lot of money [1] in harvesting location data from weather apps. apple wants that revenue
[1]https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/09/30/theres-a-multibilli...
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Re:Apple’s next big thing: A business model change
by tatersolid on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @05:20AM
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Apple doesn’t need a weather app to obtain location data from users. If they were going to track and sell location data they would just do it invisibly through iOS itself. This (and other tracking opportunities) is the reason Google gives Android away for “free”.