Comment on WSJ: China Bans iPhone Use for Government Officials at Work

• WiseMoth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I know what their privacy policy states and that they can’t (legally) lie in it (to my knowledge). I also know that they are not an advertising company primarily and that the competition is. That gives other companies far more reason to collect data. Apple on the other hand benefits from being more privacy focused as a selling point. Overall, Apple is far more trustworthy imo when it comes to privacy than others

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  • whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Those privacy policies aren’t worth the paper they are written on.

    It takes just one FISA letter to compromise Apple. In fact, there is legislation like the Cloud Act that forces US tech companies to betray our trust.

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    • WiseMoth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Regardless of that, Apple has at the very least put effort into adding privacy features. Google on the other hand is literally the company that does the advertising. Google’s main business is advertising. I said very clearly that Apple may not be perfect, but they’re objectively more privacy focused than others whether that’s for your gain or theirs

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      • Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Apple sells ads and it’s ad business is expected to grow. They have literally kicked everyone out and are now the sole source of information on iPhone users.

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      • whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Android is open source. Apple’s stuff is not. Privacy and closed source can not be in the same sentence.

        You can at least customize Android to get rid of offending stuff. You can’t even pick your web browser on Apple.

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  • Asudox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You don’t know if they really do what they say they do. This also doesn’t go for stock android with GMS. The best privacy OS is AOSP. I also don’t know how Apple is more trustworthy, they don’t open source anything and you can’t sideload apps unless you go through some jailbreaking process which has its own risks. Android at least does allow you to sideload apks.

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    • WiseMoth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Side loading has absolutely nothing to do with privacy. My main point is that Apple is more privacy friendly than others

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      • Asudox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Fun fact it has something to do with privacy. And list the others.

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    • Fankohr@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You can sideload on iOS without jailbreak. Check out sideloadly

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