doobeeus

Shuffling through my 70's here. It's still mind blowing to be able to build stuff that would take orders of magnitude more time and effort otherwise but today's AI is still an idiot savant though the ratio of savant to idiot continues to improve. Since good prompting/specing is the key to success, the most disappointing aspect of today's AI is its inability to be a better brainstorming design partner where the limitation is how utterly pedestrian the AI's contributions typically are.

Google's point about iMessage is that Apple shouldn't be promoting and profiting from kids bullying each-other. The article's author has a brand he's selling as someone on the Android beat who's willing to poke Google. Google is also making the case that since iMessage bootstrapped itself on SMS/MMS, perhaps it should continue to embrace the updated versions of these standards, enabling encrypted messaging with Android users.

Apple does not actually "take a hard stance on all apps to make sure they're not abusing privileges" though they say that they do in their advertising.

Given how Apple allows side-loading on Mac and obviously the 2 other dominant consumer platforms (Android & Windows) do as well with no significant consequences, it's pretty disingenuous for Apple to engage in these privacy/security scare tactics to maintain platform control and profits.

Add to this the fact that they only really started this campaign more than a decade after they launched the iPhone just compounds Apple's loss of credibility on this.

Well said. What if Apple's popup said "personalization" instead of "tracking"? Advertising works well for most of us, most of the time. Ironically, Apple is spending significant sums on advertising that touts how they are crippling advertising to protect your privacy.

My concern is for people who take Apple's marketing (what's really in Apple's DNA) at face value, not Google or especially Facebook.

I agree Apple has the right to run the lawful aspects of their business as they see fit but I'm a little concerned about those that think Apple has their back with this privacy scam.

I'm wondering if Apple tried selling it's current line of smartwatches a decade from now whether they would be competitive or just retro.

Follow the money - Apple's "privacy" initiative is just about Apple ensuring that every dollar spent in an iOS device sends 30 cents to Apple. That isn't the case with ads not served by Apple. So Apple is making themselves the only viable way to serve ads on iOS (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205223) and encouraging in-app purchases for everything else - problem solved.

Also, isn't it convenient that Apple is only concerned about their customer's privacy for business conducted outside of China and Russia?