> In contrast, Apple doesn’t need your data for most of the products / services they sell. Privacy is a selling point, so they’re incentivized to build robust privacy features.

This is not even funny:

1. "macOS sends hashes of every opened executable to some server of theirs" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074959

2. https://sneak.berlin/20231005/apple-operating-system-surveil...

3. Apple fined $8.5M for illegally collecting iPhone owners' data for ads (gizmodo.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34299433

4. Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devices than Apple from iOS (therecord.media) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26639261

5. Keeping your data from Apple is harder than expected (aalto.fi) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39927657