And Google spyware is all open source?

Google’s just using linux for its price, but the GPL of AOSP does a lot of heavy lifting for reverse engineering efforts like this.

edit: not that that matters at all to apple spying on users - like them scanning all Iclouds openly wasn’t even that long ago

Every cloud provider scans their storage, because the law is like that.

People have gotten their MS accounts closed when Onedrive was still called Skydrive due to automated scans finding suspicious activity

Damn, I forgot we all live in America - and so do all tech companies in the globe

The person in question was German. Microsoft found suspicious images on their Skydrive and shut down the whole MS account, Xbox and all.

What was it? Pictures of his kids on the beach, which the puritan American algorithm determined as evil

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With goggle you are the product, with apple you are the dumbest of products

I could be from alpha centuri for all it matters, storing your data in an american companies servers is still subject to american laws, that was kinda the whole point of the cloud act.

A European company on the other hand isn’t subject to such laws, and is why many tech companies open up in France/Switzerland, they have laws to protect their citizens privacy instead of outlaw it.

People do pick up Pixel phones to install GrapheneOS on. How many people pick up Apple phones/tablets and are able to install another OS on it and have it as functional as GrapheneOS?

Same with smartwatches which from the Android side can be used offline with apps like Gadgetbridge to retrieve data without giving your watch internet access and not using the official apps.

Apple is very account and OS centric wanting to funnel everything through them. Exception has been MacOS devices which has had better luck with stuff like Asahi Linux.

Just to check, would Apple’s commitment to DEI policies look as thrown-away profit to shareholders?

I got an even better question for you: Is that relevant here?

Cause I don’t think it is at all, but to answer anyways I think DEI is a valuable tool to assist picking the best person for a job, independent of race - as there is a racist bias in many hiring positions. I don’t think its perfect, but honestly I don’t think anything in US is.

And I think apple cares about DEI cause their marketing team said it makes money. Full stop.

People love when their obsession might align with their morals, but its important to remember if 2028 goes Republican in US they probably won’t even do a logo change that pride month, cause all rainbow capitalism ever is is marketing.

Yes, it’s relevant, because DEI inherently limits what the company does, and yet the shareholders voted to keep it. Apparently Apple’s shareholders aren’t bigoted idiots.

if 2028 goes Republican in US they probably won’t even do a logo change that pride month

Nice job showing your ass here, because Apple never ‘changed the logo’ for the pride month. Where the fuck are they supposed to change it, on the Macbooks?