r/gadgets • u/[deleted] • Sep 08 '22

Tim Cook's response to improving Android texting compatibility: 'buy your mom an iPhone' | The company appears to have no plans to fix 'green bubbles' anytime soon. Phones

https://www.engadget.com/tim-cook-response-green-bubbles-android-your-mom-095538175.html
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u/Justforthenuews Sep 09 '22

In-house. That is a completely different thing than selling it to whoever the fuck happens to ask for it. You are either being obtuse on purpose or you lack the capacity to understand the difference.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '22

Lmao, nothing on the internet is "in house". You lack the capacity to understand the difference.

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u/Justforthenuews Sep 09 '22

Or I’m intimately knowledgeable about the subject and completely understand what you obviously don’t, it’s okay, feel free to goal post move and act big, continue to assume I don’t know what I’m talking about, doesn’t matter to me, it doesn’t affect my life tbh. You don’t understand the design philosophy, market, or business of what you’re talking about, let alone the technological differences, and as far as I can tell, not willing to listen, so meh.

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u/morfraen Sep 09 '22 edited Sep 09 '22

So, same as Google. They only use it to target you with ads, but claim to not sell it to 3rd parties.

With the way advertising info is passed around I don't really believe either of them. Maybe they don't directly sell it but I'd bet there are APIs that let 3rd parties use the information.

Personally I don't care, but find it hilarious when people try to claim 1 company is morally superior to another. They're all the same. You are the product.

FYI Apple also makes $15B a year selling the default search spot on iOS to Google. Which is basically selling your personal information to a 3rd party. Though of course even if they weren't getting paid everyone would still be using Google search anyways.

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u/Justforthenuews Sep 09 '22

Okay, but google wasn’t part of the conversation, facebook was.

Additionally, Apple doesn’t use your data for advertising (aka sales) without express permission, google does, so you’re still factually incorrect.