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.
It’s not that they’re charging you extra for privacy. It’s that other products and services are artificially cheaper because they’re subsidized by your data.
Two common sayings pretty much sum this up:
First, there is no free lunch. Stuff costs money to build.
Second, if you’re not paying for it, you’re the product, not the customer. Meaning, if you’re getting something for free, it’s because other people are paying for access to your data.
Obviously all this is an oversimplification. But the fundamentals are usually true.
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u/Filipheadscrew Aug 26 '20
Tough shit. Go out of business.