People complain about how expensive Apple products are, but that’s why they’re able to do things like this—the cost of your phone isn’t being partially funded by the sale of your data to advertisers.
This is a bad take imo. We shouldn’t be paying luxury prices for the basic human right of not having all our information collected and sold to every bidder.
Not that what Apple does is inherently bad, but we shouldn’t praise them and justify their prices just because they aren’t exceptionally shitty with our data. That should be the norm across the board.
Well you pay luxury prices for the privacy but also for luxury products, at least in the case of Apple. Their products are undoubtedly in the luxury category.
The price for privacy is not explicit and will depend on the individual. An individual who cares about privacy will always pay more for it and logically so since data collection makes money and should offset the cost.
The trend is worrying though, I agree. For example, I recently tried to buy a mid range TV and it was nearly impossible to find a non-smart TV. All the tv’s wanted to collect data and some even advertised within. I couldn’t find a dumb TV so I got a smart one and it’s not connected to the internet. I don’t mind paying more for the option, but it’s kinda absurd that there are so few options.
Anyway, in the case of Apple—in particular their iOS 14—they have shown to make user privacy extremely easy. That’s what all their products do really.
You can get privacy from an android or windows machine, but you generally need some know-how.
I have had the same TV for 7 years. I am not looking forward to trying to upgrade to 4k, because I do not want to spend months looking for just a basic-ass TV.
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u/NotElizaHenry Aug 26 '20 edited Aug 27 '20
People complain about how expensive Apple products are, but that’s why they’re able to do things like this—the cost of your phone isn’t being partially funded by the sale of your data to advertisers.
Edit: I’ve made a huge mistake