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0 pointsmikestew8y ago0 comments

I mean, I would totally feel convenient when my contacts are synced on my devices and I get a unified experience. Google knowing about my contacts is just the price I pay to get that service

Well, it's a question of what one is willing to pay. Me, I'm willing to pay actual U. S. dollars to Apple to get that same functionality without giving up (and perhaps I'm naive here) privacy. Personally, I like that well-defined transaction. The transaction that has taken place between yourself (and to some degree, me) and Google is much more fuzzy. Today Google does this with your data, but tomorrow? You call it "adjusting the service", I call it "getting more creepy". No right or wrong, you're happy, I'm happy, but from my POV there is a vast gulf in the price paid for the two competing services.

The instant Apple starts doing Googly stuff, I'll dump them for the real thing. But I'll betcha Apple is quite aware of this.

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lern_too_spel8y ago

You're making the mistake of confusing collecting data with doing useful things with that data (whether it is useful to the company pr the customer). Apple collects the data. It is simply incapable (for now) of doing anything useful with the data. To the end user, the privacy implications are the same, perhaps worse because a company that isn't able to make use of data is probably less able to secure the data as well.

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