I'm not saying this to trash Apple - I think it's true of any corporation. If Apple starts losing revenue in 5 years because their LLM isn't good enough because they don't have enough data, they are still going to take it and have some reason justifying why theirs is privacy focused and everyone else is not.
Limited firsthand accounts don't really assuage my fears in the way that, say, Android or Linux does.
The future is always fungible. Anyone can break whatever trust they've built very quickly. But, like the post you are replying to, I have no qualms about supporting companies that are currently doing things in my interest and don't have any clear strategic incentive to violate that trust.
Edit: that same incentive structure would apply to NVIDIA, afaik
The logic is exactly same as ie Meta claims - we will pseudoanonymize your data, so technically your specific privacy is just yours, see nothing changed. But you are in various target groups for ads, plus we know how 'good' those anon efforts are when money are at play and corporations are only there to earn as much money as possible. Rest is PR.
And Apple's privacy stance is a moat against these other companies making money off of their customer base. So for the cost of pennies on the dollar, they protect their customer base and ward off competition. That's a pretty strong incentive.
You would be amazed at the response of some of them when I point out some shit Apple does that make their products clearly lacking for the price, the cognitive dissonance is so strong they don't know how to react in any other way than lying or pretending it doesn't matter.
I have very specific reasons to be annoyed but they are far too many to list them all in a simple post. I was working with and buying Apple stuff before the turn of the millenium and I have worked as an Apple technician and helped way more Apple users than I could care to list. This is my experience and your comment precisely illustrates that.
My comment was about the delusion of privacy first marketing bullshit that they came up with to excuse the limitations of some of their stuff.
But since Apple can't do anything wrong, we are not going anywhere. Whatever, keep on believing.
I'll check myself thanks, but you should check your allegiance to a trillion dollar corp and its bullshit marketing, that's really not useful to anyone but them.
I feel like people are being a bit naïve here. Apple's "Privacy First" strategy was a marketing spin developed in response to being dead-last in web-development/cloud computing/smart features.
Apple has had no problem changing their standards by 180 degrees and being blatantly anti-consumer whenever they have a competitive advantage to do so.