It did, OP just chose to highlight what best suits his/her viewpoint.
Example : Safari on iOS and OSX defaults to Google for the search engine and Apple collects billions of dollars from Google to make it easy for you to sell your data to Google - the very thing Cook is trying to sell you as evil! Same goes for FB, Twitter and Bing.
Also Apple collects a great deal of data just like others and it is not provably different than others unless you insert irrational faith into the equation.
I can tunnel all network traffic from my Apple devices through a VPN and prove that they still work fine, and I can have a look at the amount of traffic Apple sends and see if it corresponds with the "yes" and "no" answers I've given to their privacy questions.
That's not a counter argument at all. Cook never said that user's shouldn't be allowed to use google. He said that there should be a privacy respecting option. That users shouldn't be forced to trade their privacy for free usage. It defaults to google because the majority of people want it to but at least it gives you the option. Android and google present no such option.
> it gives you the option. Android and google present no such option.
Umm, what? Did you really not know you can search with Bing on Android? You can also not choose to add a Google account and instead use alternative app store on any Android phone by the way. People user Google services because they like them and find value in them. No different than on ios.
Example : Safari on iOS and OSX defaults to Google for the search engine and Apple collects billions of dollars from Google to make it easy for you to sell your data to Google - the very thing Cook is trying to sell you as evil! Same goes for FB, Twitter and Bing.
Also Apple collects a great deal of data just like others and it is not provably different than others unless you insert irrational faith into the equation.