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There has to be be some degree of tying purchases to an account. The real issue here is what is done with the data after it's been collected. Internal use is one thing; such as improving apps etc. When it's used to target individual in a bid to influence their thinking, that's when the real problem starts. Are Apple guilty of the latter?

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Certainly. They use it in app store ads, to determine their own product development, and to market their products.

On other platforms, I can install apps on my devices without telling anybody.

Which platforms?

Most Android distributions, most Linux distributions, Windows, etc.

Pretty sure most of those would be sending telemetry including installed apps back to the company.

And we know for a fact Windows does this.

> Pretty sure...

Now you know that you were wrong. Windows allows you to disable telemetry and certainly doesn't report apps you install to Microsoft if you don't want it to. Same for Android and obviously for desktop and server Linux distros. This is simply not possible on iOS.

You can install apps on iOS without using the store.

And if you are willing to jailbreak then you have the full suite.

> You can install apps on iOS without using the store.

Not without reinstalling weekly unless you reduce your privacy even further by also give Apple your banking details.

> And if you are willing to jailbreak then you have the full suite.

On these other platforms, you don't have to rely on your device being so insecure that it has a rootable vulnerability.

“Willing to” is not “able to”.

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