<story><title>Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone</title><url>https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/apples-anti-tracking-plans-iphone/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LC_ALL</author><text>Say what you want about Apple but they are by far the most privacy focused big company. Their income is from selling physical devices. Typical megacorps in 2020 are leveraging economies of scale to sell their users&amp;#x27; attention. Apple has a unique value add in that when their users benefit they benefit.&lt;p&gt;Sent from my Thinkpad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fbelzile</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Their income is from selling physical devices.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not entirely true anymore:&lt;p&gt;1) About $8-12 &lt;i&gt;billion&lt;/i&gt; paid by Google to have their search engine default. [1]&lt;p&gt;2) About $20 &lt;i&gt;billion&lt;/i&gt; from their 15-30% cut of third party app developers. Where the App Store is protected from competition. [2]&lt;p&gt;3) Apple services (like Apple TV+), which collects usage data for itself and third parties. [3]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.macrumors.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;25&amp;#x2F;google-apple-search-default-8-12-billion&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.macrumors.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;25&amp;#x2F;google-apple-search-def...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;6&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;21292203&amp;#x2F;apple-app-store-ios-apps-billings-revenue-517-billion-2019-antitrust-regulation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;6&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;21292203&amp;#x2F;apple-app-store-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.apple.com&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;HT208511&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.apple.com&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;HT208511&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone</title><url>https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/apples-anti-tracking-plans-iphone/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LC_ALL</author><text>Say what you want about Apple but they are by far the most privacy focused big company. Their income is from selling physical devices. Typical megacorps in 2020 are leveraging economies of scale to sell their users&amp;#x27; attention. Apple has a unique value add in that when their users benefit they benefit.&lt;p&gt;Sent from my Thinkpad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>speedgoose</author><text>Why don&amp;#x27;t they fully encrypt the icloud backups?&lt;p&gt;Sent from my Huawei.</text></comment>