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I have never in my life met anyone that has an iPhone or a Mac because Apple is processing everything on the device itself. People have iPhone and macs for 2 reasons. iMessage and because Apple is a premium brand that even that richest of richest people use. The money Apple would lose if they started mining your data like Facebook would be indistinguishable from random noise.

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I am in the Apple ecosystem primarily for privacy reasons. We exist.

Privacy online or anywhere is an absolute psyops. Everything is logged recorded and stored. Every website visited, every email opened or sent, every text message sent or received. No matter who the company is.

They're not at the level of Facebook and Google, but they still mine your data. You've gained nothing.

I'm more comfortable with Apple's decisions than some on Hackers News, so take this with a grain of salt... but the difference between what Google/Facebook does and Apple does is a difference. It may not be as vast a difference as Apple claims, but it's also not nothing.

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