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Comment by lumisota | Hacker News Reader

The title of this article is click-bait, surely? Apple have made much PR out of their privacy stance. Indeed, the article says: "Apple makes a big deal about its different approach to privacy on the company website".

How is this eye opening?

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The eye opening part was how little data there was and the hoops needed to verify the recipient. This is in comparison to Google and Facebook. Both have orders of magnitude more data and sent the data with, apparently, little verification.

It's not really eye opening considering Apple products cost money. Their business does not lie upon selling data to advertisers or other entities.

But they could collect data and presumably profit more. If they did collect more data and profited from this data collection would they really lose enough customers to offset this increase in profit? It seems to me they wouldn’t. I think they are taking a moral stance on the issue at least for the time being. This may change in the future.

It is surprising though for the company not to lie about this given the shenanigans that many large companies engage in.

It's eye opening that the author doesn't use iCloud? Why? Almost nobody uses iCloud. Each of its components is worst in class.

I use iCloud for storage. It’s worked great for me. I’ve never had a problem with it. It wasn’t eye opening to me that the author doesn’t use iCloud.

Perhaps because we've all been conditioned to ignore PR, or to believe the exact opposite of what PR says. Seeing that it's true is an unexpected situation.

It's also eye opening in the context of a comparison against the other FAANG companies in question.

For you maybe it isn’t

But you’re only one of 300 million in the states and 7 billion on the planet

And it’s USA Today, mainstream news. Maybe it’s not targeting someone with nothing better to do than memorize Apples policies

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