brucemc

mikethemartian said:

bb-15 said:

Imagine a company looking through your mail, tracking where you go & what you buy to send advertising to you. In the past that would have been intolerable.   
But that is what Google does. It mines data on its apps, ties it to the user and uses that data to send individualized ads to the customer. 
This is how Google makes most of its money. 

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/020515/business-google.asp ;

https://bgr.com/2016/02/11/why-facebook-and-google-mine-your-data-and-why-theres-nothing-you-can-do-to-stop-it/ ;

I minimize that kind of data tracking as much as possible & part of how I do that is to carefully use Apple products to reduce data tracking for ads.
In addition, Apple has top notch customer service & devices which have OS support/updates for many years.  
The Apple ecosystem works well across its devices. 
Apple products by & large are simple to use & yet are very powerful. 

For all those things which benefit me, I’m willing to pay a reasonable amount more. 

 

You don’t think Apple would do the same? Tim Cook talking about privacy isn’t a guarantee. He may one day make the “pragmatic” decision to sell your data.

Rembert said:

interesting article. Apple seems to be loosing ground by their appearant stubborn focus on exclusive and fashionable high-tech which does actually function close to perfectly. Just like in Steve Jobs' time, Apple doesn't listen to their customers. With Jobs this seems to have been a good idea as he had a pretty good vision on what people needed even before those people realized they needed this. With Cook it's different. There's no real innovation, it's mostly evolution. People want stuff in the Apple family which is good enough to run within the Apple family. Yes, a market exists for those sensitive to exclusive and fashionable gear. But that market will definately fail if Apple fails to answer to the demands of people who require gear which is good enough. For me, this involves an iPhone-SE-sized phone or even the continuation of the current SE as it's good enough already. And a MBP which is a continuation of the 2015-model as that one is good enough already. Everything beyond the SE and the 2015 MBP is indeed exclusive and fashionable but it's way beyond what a lot of people need (I deliberately refrain from making remarks regarding the newer MBPs regarding touchbar and keyboard). I feel Apple is currently using use-cases which do not sync with reality. If Apple doesn't review these use-cases, I fear Apple will loose ground very quickly, just like in the 90s. I'm already checking-out Android phones and Linux laptops, wondering when I will jump ship.

gatorguy said:

MacPro said:

Great news and agree with the poster above. No doubt our resident Google journalist will post refuting evidence any second ...

This is exactly the type of thing I said to you a couple days back: Trolling me with an invitation to a thread that if I had an interest in I would comment on it. I don't. It doesn't matter to me what someone wants to use for a phone, but that wasn't the reason for your call-out anyway IMO.
https://forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/comment/3146438/#Comment_3146438

You seemingly have a greater interest in trolling me than discussion. No prob. I learned the drill years ago, I just have a new follower with an agenda.