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Comment by mexicocitinluez

4 hours ago

> Personally, I’d rather not have Google buried deep inside all aspects of my phone.

I mean, one could say the exact same thing but swapping Google with Apple.

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manuelabeledo  3 hours ago

Google core business is ads. It is not the same.

  • nerdix  2 hours ago

    Apple's core business is trapping users into their walled garden so they can rent seek.

    Whichever one you think is worse is really just a reflection of your own personal values. I value computing freedom above all.

    • JimDabell  9 minutes ago

      > Apple's core business is trapping users into their walled garden so they can rent seek.

      Apple’s core business is selling hardware. Their services revenue is not even close to their hardware revenue.

    • fsflover  14 minutes ago

      > I value computing freedom above all.

      So perhaps you should consider switching to GNU/Linux phones.

  • mexicocitinluez  2 hours ago

    The difference between Apple vs Google is that with Apple you ARE the ad. They don't need advertising when they know people will adopt them and then be forced into their ecosystem.

    • manuelabeledo  26 minutes ago

      I’m not sure what you are trying to say here. Even if that was true, my point was that an ad driven business like Google, would be incentivized to monetize all the aspects of my life they could have access to. If that’s not what Apple is doing, compared to Google, then that’s a win I guess?