alt Hacker NewsApple has a very different business model than Google (Alphabet). It's not even close to the same in terms of how they make most of their money.
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dns_snek • today at 7:16 AM
As if hardware companies don't quite famously include spyware in their products. Everything from phones, cars, fridges, TVs, monitors, speakers, light bulbs, laptops and everything else that supports inclusion of spyware.
bigyabai • today at 2:58 AM
I don't disagree. They're still a spy company, if we're being cynically reductive.
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fsflover • today at 7:43 AM
You're not wrong today, but they are expanding their ads department to the detriment of users: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46911901, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46322556, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22501511
It did do, but now it's putting ads in everything it will rapidly converge to the same practices to optimise shareholder value.