Completely wrong. Apple goes to extraordinary lengths, to the point of harming the usability of their products, to protect user privacy and avoid collecting user data.

Apple could easily make tens of billions dollars extra if they spied more on their users.

Does Apple sell data on what I’m watching to third parties?

Linux is not a viable option for TV for the vast majority of users. There are no sit back, remote driven apps for the services they use.

Apple is not a “surveillance capitalism company that trains on your data to manipulate you”. The exact opposite, actually.

Source: I work at Apple. The privacy story isn’t just marketing, it’s very real and part of every discussion.

You know why. Nobody wants to sysadmin their “friendly Linux distro” just to watch shows. Kodi is amateur hour compared to tvOS. Nowhere do people care more that it “just works” than the thing their TV remote talks to.