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Why would you Trust Apple? They are known to bend to the US government (PRISM) and China. Not to mention their denial of multiple hardware issues over the last few decades (butterfly keyboard / iPhone signal)

I'm not saying Google or Yahoo is better, I'm saying that it sounds silly to say you Trust Apple.

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Fair question. No corporation (usually) does anything because it is the right thing to do. Where is their profit motive? For Apple, I think that they have jumped on the privacy bandwagon. Yes, they caved to the Chinese government, but not so much to the US government.

Check out PRISM. Apple has been caught working with the US government to provide mass surveillance data.

You've probably heard of Edward Snowden, this is what he uncovered.

And yeah for profit corporations make money. Its unethical to advertise privacy and do the opposite.

Does the concept of “the lesser evil” mean anything to you?

Also, in practice, Apple offers objectively much better privacy than Microsoft or Google do. For example, for over a decade now, iCloud Mail aliases let you have completely different addresses tied to your login, instead of exposing your primary address like YourRealAddress+UselessAlias@gmail.com

I'd be careful not to fall for marketing. I'm not actually sure Apple is better than Microsoft. Sure Apple spends money on advertising to say this, but Snowden had to catch Apple to find out they were giving away your emails to the government.

Does Apple have better security than Microsoft? They advertise that too, but every other week there's a Apple 0 day exploit.

Does Apple make you "Think different"? But make everyone conform to the same apps, web browser, hardware, etc....

I'd be extremely careful not to take marketing/psychology tricks as fact.

Bruh I just gave an concrete example of how an Apple product/service is objectively better than the Google one.

They said they “mostly” trust Apple.

At least they’ll not sell ads based on contents of my emails.

I find it a bit odd that creepy toothpaste advertising is a greater sin than providing your thoughts and dreams and sexual behavior to a dictatorship and "Democratic" empire.

Maybe this is the human brain trying to rationalize your past behavior in speech and it just sounds silly.

You didn’t mention any other companies in your PRISM companies. The others shared data for PRISM AND have been profiling people and selling or sharing their behavioral data.

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