badmonk

As others have just posted the revenue stream is not just from selling services to the customers directly but by selling data to insurance companies, advertisers and I would add law enforcement to the mix.

The internet is dead from scam websites, pop-up reviews for every trivial task, click bait headlines, AI-pushed addiction feeds etc etc.

I love Apple Insider and I pay the subscription and would be willing to pay more for it so I do want this site to thrive.

But it would be great to just cut unwanted content as an Apple user but I wonder if the ad companies will fight this as a free speech, unfettered commerce issue.

And with the Feds and EU fictional monopoly preoccupations I am not sure this will be allowed.

But from my perspective, Apple should “just go for it.”

The idea that some want people to go through a new set-up process in their old phone for the sake of browser choice is having the cure be worse than the disease.  The Apple approach of having a Safari start-up be the trigger for this seems better for the user.

This also speaks to the trouble with the Chinese economy writ large.  I am sure this scene is being duplicated throughout China in other industries.

I doubt the EU will achieve their aims of having a flourishing tech industry with this degree of over-regulation and what seems to be mere politcally motivated persecution of American companies.

The USA should counter this EU over-regulation with negotiation but they seem to be more interested in beating up on big tech as well.  And the EU should worry more about protecting their own industries from Chinese dumping, in particular EVs which are being stockpiled in EU ports.

The big tech pile-on by governments is starting to look like a moral-panic.  Maybe AI is the real issue they should be focused on.