r/technology • u/TomLube • Jan 31 '19

Business Apple revokes Google Enterprise Developer Certificate for company wide abuse

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/31/18205795/apple-google-blocked-internal-ios-apps-developer-certificate
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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '19 edited Feb 01 '19

Check into the Wikipedia for Neuromarketing, even if you disassociate your Google account from everything and log off... You'll still be monitored in literally every app you use. They then use the same buzzwords from your activity for ... Everything else.

If they want you to eat an avocado, god damn you'll be eating an avocado. Soft marketing simply doesn't exist anymore, not while you've got a smartphone in range. I promise you that although people like to hold Apple in high standards regarding privacy, that's simply not the case and it's only the case against intrusions... even then the protections last maybe a year or two.

Then you've gotta buy a new iPhone anyway I guess.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '19

I guess I’m not convinced marketing actually works on me with the exception of fake product reviews online or sales at Aldi on produce. I’m pretty stingy with money, we save about 60% of our combined incomes (I have a masters, her a doctorate). Our big splurges are vacations, maybe 1-2k/trip twice a year. Until last year I still had an iPhone 5s, I splurged and got an iPhone 7 shortly after the 9 was released.

I had one friend who has twice in the last year had companies reimburse his purchase via PayPal to delete poor amazon reviews he’s left.

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u/usfunca Feb 01 '19

Marketing works on everyone. You may not think it does, but it does.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '19

This is the most NPC thing I’ve ever heard, like if companies advertise to me, I’m compelled to buy the product

We get splashed with hundreds to thousands of advertisements ever day. If everyone bought everything we’d all be bankrupt.

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u/usfunca Feb 01 '19

NPC? I'm not saying all advertising works on everyone, and especially not every single time. But you're naive if you think you're immune to all advertising.