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Are apple TVs not phoning home?
If anything I'd imagine they're one of the hardest companies to block, considering most apple users have a thousand idevices that could smuggle messages, even with all communications turned off.
Not at this scale. Remember that Apple is a hardware company first. They make money from hardware and app stores.
Google is the worlds largest ad company who dabble in hardware and services to increase their ad revenue.
They're still a public company, and Im sure the heat is on their C suite cause they haven't had any successful hardware releases since the M series processor was first released.
Not selling "anonymous" data would look to shareholders as thrown away profit, which they're even able to sue for.
So I'd be insanely surprised if they weren't surveiling their users - but unlike google and all, they own their entire closed-source software and hardware empire, so the likelihood of catching them is also valuably low.
Just to check, would Apple's commitment to DEI policies look as thrown-away profit to shareholders?
I got an even better question for you: Is that relevant here?
Cause I don't think it is at all, but to answer anyways I think DEI is a valuable tool to assist picking the best person for a job, independent of race - as there is a racist bias in many hiring positions. I don't think its perfect, but honestly I don't think anything in US is.
And I think apple cares about DEI cause their marketing team said it makes money. Full stop.
People love when their obsession might align with their morals, but its important to remember if 2028 goes Republican in US they probably won't even do a logo change that pride month, cause all rainbow capitalism ever is is marketing.
Yes, it's relevant, because DEI inherently limits what the company does, and yet the shareholders voted to keep it. Apparently Apple's shareholders aren't bigoted idiots.
Nice job showing your ass here, because Apple never 'changed the logo' for the pride month. Where the fuck are they supposed to change it, on the Macbooks?
Not killing customers is also technically a limitation on companies, doesn't inheritly mean it stops them from maximising profit.
Hell the reason companies don't kill and do dei are the same reason, public perception (and also why there's not a sneeze of either of those in poor countries)
But also... genuinely you thought I meant they like physically tear the logo off the back of every customers laptop and replaced it, only for a month, every single year?
Cause you know what fuck it, you're right I do believe this 100% - you're telling me Tim apple doesn't visit you yearly??? man you gotta get your money back
Thanks for your input, I didn't even know that killing customers would increase companies' revenue.
And Google spyware is all open source?
Google's just using linux for its price, but the GPL of AOSP does a lot of heavy lifting for reverse engineering efforts like this.
edit: not that that matters at all to apple spying on users - like them scanning all Iclouds openly wasn't even that long ago
Every cloud provider scans their storage, because the law is like that.
People have gotten their MS accounts closed when Onedrive was still called Skydrive due to automated scans finding suspicious activity
Damn, I forgot we all live in America - and so do all tech companies in the globe
The person in question was German. Microsoft found suspicious images on their Skydrive and shut down the whole MS account, Xbox and all.
What was it? Pictures of his kids on the beach, which the puritan American algorithm determined as evil
I could be from alpha centuri for all it matters, storing your data in an american companies servers is still subject to american laws, that was kinda the whole point of the cloud act.
A European company on the other hand isn't subject to such laws, and is why many tech companies open up in France/Switzerland, they have laws to protect their citizens privacy instead of outlaw it.
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With goggle you are the product, with apple you are the dumbest of products
People do pick up Pixel phones to install GrapheneOS on. How many people pick up Apple phones/tablets and are able to install another OS on it and have it as functional as GrapheneOS?
Same with smartwatches which from the Android side can be used offline with apps like Gadgetbridge to retrieve data without giving your watch internet access and not using the official apps.
Apple is very account and OS centric wanting to funnel everything through them. Exception has been MacOS devices which has had better luck with stuff like Asahi Linux.
“Find My” network is pretty strict by its nature, if you’re talking about that. Realistically speaking, I wouldn’t be scared of it, because I can’t see any vector from which it can be dangerous to the end user.
Nonetheless, “Find My” is an optional feature and can be fully disabled. Other Apple web-services can be blocked on a network level, if you want it for some reason. But, IMO, at this paranoia level, the only right option is OSS with a strict firewall.