Comment by HumblyTossed
25 days ago
> Of all the major tech companies around the world, Apple has the most incentive to actually deliver privacy, and has the best track record.
Honestly, based on what? That they haven't been caught?
25 days ago
> Of all the major tech companies around the world, Apple has the most incentive to actually deliver privacy, and has the best track record.
Honestly, based on what? That they haven't been caught?
It's a major selling point, for one. They actively sell their products on privacy to the average person and an exposé would harm their image quite significantly.
That said they are not perfect - e.g their wording in their own tracking consent prompts vs the ones they force on others.
> It's a major selling point, for one.
That's marketing. Do you always trust everything in marketing material?
Apple has done more than literally any other technology company to limit their own ability to ever access your personal data.
Always missing from the paranoid lunatic side of this discussion: what devices do you use? I presume you do all your computing on an abacus?
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No, but when they make claims in marketing material and then lie, it opens them to huge liability. So there is an enforcement path.
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I trust that when they don’t do it perfectly, a million nerds are going to scream “finally! Gotcha!”
…while running far worse stuff themselves, the whole time.
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Apple perceives itself as a prestige brand. That perception depends upon consistently high execution and a perception that they’re trying to create beautiful experiences for users.
They want the device to be a mechanism for you to purchase things. Hence the “Apple card” and all the hullabaloo around that. You’ll only use your phone if you perceive it to be secure. Apple’s investments in Secure Enclave’s, sandboxing are all directly linked to their belief that this will help the consumer perceive the safety of the product- and again, it goes back to the perception of the brand.
Quality craftsmanship has properties that outsiders can perceive- even if they don’t understand it. Apple makes those investments.
Google- well, they just make things and then abandon them. Android’s bizzaro world open source is a chaotic mess that reflects the lack of discipline in Google’s leadership.
Yes, they make great devices. I have many. But do we _know_ that what they claim is fact?
And I don't know what Google has to do with this.
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