Comment by lapcat
1 month ago
> sorry to say but this could have been an optimistic post
> don't own any Apple device
So you don't have any skin in the game, but you're criticizing someone who does?
My blog post is written from the perspective of an Apple user whose trust has been violated. It's nice that you think—from a safe distance—the technology is neat, and maybe it is, but that's irrelevant to the main issue, which is the lack of user consent.
Hacker News unfortunately does not respond to this logic unless it is a company they are trained to hate. We could run the same story reporting Google and Meta's opt-out abuses, and it would also reach the frontpage with just as many comments. Except those comments would be violent condemnation, not apologetics and hand-wringing over whitepaper quotes.
It's tragic, because computing is in a professedly imperfect place right now. Digital privacy is under fire, many payments see a 30% digital service surcharge that is wholly arbitrary, and revolutionary cross-platform standards are being supplanted with proprietary and non-portable solutions that does not benefit any user.
As an American, I am ashamed that our government's dysfunction extends to consumer protection.