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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 04:24:28 JST Aral Balkan

   • h3artbl33d :openbsd: :ve:
   • Itanium Thom

   @h3artbl33d @thomholwerda At this point, your guess is as good as mine 🤷♂️

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 05:04:25 JST Aral Balkan

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     • h3artbl33d :openbsd: :ve:
     • Itanium Thom

     @thomholwerda @h3artbl33d Indeed. But things are not as they were ten years ago. Trillion-dollar corporations have more in common with each other than with anything else.

     https://ar.al/notes/apple-vs-google-on-privacy-a-tale-of-absolute-competitive-advantage/

   • Itanium Thom (thomholwerda@exquisite.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 05:04:26 JST Itanium Thom

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     • h3artbl33d :openbsd: :ve:

     @aral @h3artbl33d Understand their business models, and you will realise where your data is safer.

     Google's core business is selling insights based on user data. That user data is the goose, the insights (ads) are the golden eggs. Unlike what a lot of people think, Google doesn't sell user data - Google would be stupid to do so. Why sell the one goose, when you can endlessly sell golden eggs? Google will protect the goose - your data - with its life, because its very existence depends on it. Ergo, I use Google products (Android, Google Home, etc., but my Gmail account is corporate to no email scanning).

     Apple sells you devices and services. It needs to keep selling you devices and services to survive. That's why Apple's services revenue is so important to it... But that services revenue is 80% income from gambling "games" in the App Store. The more people are addicted to gambling in the App Store, the more money apple makes. The more services Apple can get you to sign up for by pestering you with ads in iOS, the more money it makes.

     Even worse - Apple's devices business model is built on genocide. Afraid of TikTok? You should be afraid of just how cosy Apple is with with the CCP.

     Google over Apple every day of the week.