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  • Judge questions Apple's commitment to App Store payment alternatives

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    mark fearing said:
    rob53 said:
    Why does Apple has to have an alternative App Store payment process? When I go to any store, I pay the store. I don't pay the manufacturer of an individual product. I just don't understand why people can't see this. It's Apple's product so you pay Apple. 
    Exactly. And grocery stores charge shelving fees based on placement. Yet I haven’t seen the government go after that.
    The problem with this analogy is that you can go across the street to another grocery store. You have choices. With Apple, you just have their store and that's it.
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  • Apple makes it really hard for users to completely stop it from collecting data

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    ericthehalfbee said:
    Data that leaves your iPhone doesn’t mean it’s being “collected” by Apple. The article even mentions services like Continuity that require data to be transferred so devices can work together.

    Further, data that leaves your device and goes to Apple doesn’t mean it’s being abused (like used for targeted ads).

    There’s also a huge difference between data going to a company like Apple and someone like Meta or Google who make 98/80% of their revenue from targeted ads. They need your data to survive. To Apple your data isn’t even pocket change.
    According to Statista, Apple's ad revenue is expected to be around $14 billion by 2027. Where do you think Apple is getting this data from to target ads?

    I do agree that Meta and Google are crappy companies and their main revenue source is selling your data, but Apple is not completely innocent in this either.
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