Apple Just Traded Your Privacy for $15 Billion
Apple and Google the two companies represent the dominant mobile platforms, iOS and Android, and–as such–are fierce rivals. At least that’s what you would think. Steve Jobs, after all, famously told his biographer, Walter Isaacson, that he wanted to “destroy Android because it’s a stolen product.” They also have very different philosophies when it comes to user data–with Apple preaching that it believes “privacy is a fundamental human right.” Google, by nature of the fact that it is the world’s largest advertising platform, is also one of its largest collectors of user data.
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