On: Apple is now a privacy-as-a-service company

[riazrizvi]

Apple delivers privacy from 3rd party developers and at the same time retains all that user data for itself, shoring up its unfair competitive advantage as a non-neutral-platform who makes major forays into its partners’ businesses. Eg health apps, maps, news, podcasts, imusic, etc, etc.

[nabla9 → riazrizvi]

User data has less value for Apple.

The main economic incentive to collect massive amounts of user data comes from two-sided market (users and advertisers). Google, Facebook are in that market.

[saagarjha → riazrizvi]

Health data is end-to-end encrypted.