If Apple is the only organisation defending our privacy, it is time to worry
I see a bunch of comments talking about how Apple is being self serving and not at all altruistic when they defend our privacy.<p>And my response is - well duh. And this is supposed to be a problem how? Apple wants my money and nothing else. They aren't motivated to protect my privacy out of the goodness of their hearts. I am happy to pay money for more privacy.<p>The fact that they only do this because they want my money isn't really the interesting question to me. The interesting question to me is, why is it that they are literally the ONLY large tech company that is willing to offer me this tradeoff? I'm willing to pay a premium of probably hundreds of dollars on a phone because I want privacy, and nobody else will even consider selling me one? How much is my data really worth to advertisers? Like, a hundred bucks a year? Ok sure, where do I pay to get ownership of my data back?<p>Samsung, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft don't sell privacy, or if they do, they're sure doing a bang up job hiding it. None of them have any altruistic motives either, so I can only conclude that they either don't want my money or they're really bad at what they do?<p>Is there really no other company that wants to get in on this privacy game? Because the people who really care about this are probably affluent and willing to pay a lot for it.