WSJ News Exclusive | China Bans iPhone Use for Government Officials at Work
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The directive is the latest step in Beijing’s campaign to cut reliance on foreign technology and could hurt Apple’s business in the country.
    • whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      3620·
      1 year ago

      Apple and privacy can’t be in the same sentence. It does not make sense.

      This is just retaliation to the Huawei ban, and to America’s efforts to hurt China’s chip industry.

      • WiseMoth@lemmy.worldEnglish
        186·
        1 year ago

        While Apple may not be perfect when it comes to privacy, they are objectively better for privacy than just about every other manufacturer as it’s profitable to their business model

        • whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
          98·
          1 year ago

          Based on what? Apple sells a closed source device. Neither you nor me know how much data they retain or share with the government.

          • WiseMoth@lemmy.worldEnglish
            78·
            1 year ago

            I know what their privacy policy states and that they can’t (legally) lie in it (to my knowledge). I also know that they are not an advertising company primarily and that the competition is. That gives other companies far more reason to collect data. Apple on the other hand benefits from being more privacy focused as a selling point. Overall, Apple is far more trustworthy imo when it comes to privacy than others

            • asudox@lemmy.worldEnglish
              32·
              1 year ago

              You don’t know if they really do what they say they do. This also doesn’t go for stock android with GMS. The best privacy OS is AOSP. I also don’t know how Apple is more trustworthy, they don’t open source anything and you can’t sideload apps unless you go through some jailbreaking process which has its own risks. Android at least does allow you to sideload apks.

              • WiseMoth@lemmy.worldEnglish
                4·
                1 year ago

                Side loading has absolutely nothing to do with privacy. My main point is that Apple is more privacy friendly than others

            • whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
              88·
              1 year ago

              Those privacy policies aren’t worth the paper they are written on.

              It takes just one FISA letter to compromise Apple. In fact, there is legislation like the Cloud Act that forces US tech companies to betray our trust.

              • WiseMoth@lemmy.worldEnglish
                52·
                1 year ago

                Regardless of that, Apple has at the very least put effort into adding privacy features. Google on the other hand is literally the company that does the advertising. Google’s main business is advertising. I said very clearly that Apple may not be perfect, but they’re objectively more privacy focused than others whether that’s for your gain or theirs

                • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
                  41·
                  1 year ago

                  Apple sells ads and it’s ad business is expected to grow. They have literally kicked everyone out and are now the sole source of information on iPhone users.

                  Another thing I’dime to know does Apple buy data?

                • whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
                  48·
                  1 year ago

                  Android is open source. Apple’s stuff is not. Privacy and closed source can not be in the same sentence.

                  You can at least customize Android to get rid of offending stuff. You can’t even pick your web browser on Apple.