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398 points djoldman | 1 comments | 06 Nov 24 13:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.288s | source
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solarkraft ◴[06 Nov 24 15:40 UTC] No.42063965[source]▶
Sibling comments point out (and I believe, corrections are welcome) that all that theater is still no protection against Apple themselves, should they want to subvert the system in an organized way. They’re still fully in control. There is, for example, as far as I understand it, still plenty of attack surface for them to run different software than they say they do.

What they are doing by this is of course to make any kind of subversion a hell of a lot harder and I welcome that. It serves as a strong signal that they want to protect my data and I welcome that. To me this definitely makes them the most trusted AI vendor at the moment by far.

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1. johnklos ◴[07 Nov 24 06:16 UTC] No.42073933[source]▶
Add to this that the only true deterrent to any company these days is the loss of money, and we have a pretty air tight case here.

If Apple were seen to be subverting privacy at all, they'd lose literally tens of billions of dollars of revenue because they would no longer be a "premium" brand with offerings that truly differentiate themselves from every Android provider.

I trust that no company of that size would risk the most important thing that differentiates themselves from the whole rest of the world for the purpose of spying, making profit from tracking and advertisements, et cetera.