Hey Apple, are you prepared to get a few million more Android switchers?
Studies have shown for years that no large switching from one platform to another occurs no matter what happens on either. The last big platform shift event was Android to iPhone when the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus launched but that ended with the combination of the iPhone 6s/6s Plus being underwhelming updates and Samsung launching curved screens shortly thereafter (which Apple themselves adopted). A small shift happened as a result of the Galaxy Note 7 fire issue (the Galaxy Note line never recovered and will soon be replaced by the Galaxy Fold). Claims otherwise - nearly all of it from the Apple fandom camp - are anecdotal.
They’re not anecdotal. Apple has the numbers and announces switchers from knockoffs very often.
But of course “Apple is lying!!” And lying companies (with a terrible track record) that prey on the uninformed like Samsung are telling the truth!!
Most users either know that they are being tracked or do not care. The only people who do "care" are Apple fans who started caring when Apple told them to in order to paint their own products as "good" and opposing products as "evil".
We'll just say totally wrong here and move on.
Agreed. Most users don’t know any of this is going on. This guy is acting like he’s immune to the very thing he’s claiming Apple fans are experiencing. It’s selection bias.
My disgust with laissez-faire capitalism and general capitalist abuse of people and economies has NOTHING to do with Apple’s PR. Apple is on my shit list too, only they’re slightly less bad than the majority of the other tech industry scum.
If he thinks the soccer mom across the street and granny Eleanor know all the technical details of Google, Facebook and online advertising, then he’s beyond delusional. This is the same poster who told me iPhones and iPads where knockoffs of Samsung’s knockoff Apple lines.
Also strange that he believes people are pro-privacy because of Apple keynotes etc. People who even tune in to keynotes have got to be less than 1% of Apple’s user base.
Imagine telling a neighbor, “Hey Bob, the only reason you close your blinds at night is because you allow Tim Cook to manipulate you! Remember that keynote last year??”
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They’re not anecdotal. Apple has the numbers and announces switchers from knockoffs very often.
But of course “Apple is lying!!” And lying companies (with a terrible track record) that prey on the uninformed like Samsung are telling the truth!!
If he thinks the soccer mom across the street and granny Eleanor know all the technical details of Google, Facebook and online advertising, then he’s beyond delusional. This is the same poster who told me iPhones and iPads where knockoffs of Samsung’s knockoff Apple lines.
Also strange that he believes people are pro-privacy because of Apple keynotes etc. People who even tune in to keynotes have got to be less than 1% of Apple’s user base.
Imagine telling a neighbor, “Hey Bob, the only reason you close your blinds at night is because you allow Tim Cook to manipulate you! Remember that keynote last year??”