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Re:Google's Plan to Stop Apple from Getting Serious About Se... by brookst on Thursday October 26, 2023 @09:30AM (#38025248)
I don’t care what Apple or Google “cares” about; I am deeply skeptical that multi-billion-dollar companies even can “care” about anything.

But if you look at track record and technical implementations, Apple has less incentive and less capability to abuse my personal info. Its just a pragmatic thing, no need to bring principles into it.

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Re:Google's Plan to Stop Apple from Getting Serious About Se... by user_named on Thursday October 26, 2023 @09:36AM (#38025318)
Apple doesn't have less incentive and their capabilities are catching up
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Re:Google's Plan to Stop Apple from Getting Serious About Se... by Tagbert on Thursday October 26, 2023 @07:26PM (#38032945)
Apple doesn't make their money by collecting your information. they make their money mostly by selling you expensive stuff and by selling you streaming services.
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Re:Google's Plan to Stop Apple from Getting Serious About Se... by user_named on Thursday October 26, 2023 @09:15PM (#38033611)
No, they make money by selling ads.
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Re:Google's Plan to Stop Apple from Getting Serious About Se... by Tagbert on Saturday October 28, 2023 @02:10PM (#38052053)
Their ads business is pretty minimal and is much smaller than their hardware business.

They sell ads in their App Store in the search results and some listings. They also sell regular display ads in the News app which does not have a massive following.

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