„I’m speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency about their personal information. They’re gobbling up everything they can learn about you and trying to monetize it. We think that’s wrong. And it’s not the kind of company that Apple wants to be.“
Hat Tim Cook beim CFA-Dinner des EPIC gesagt laut „The Verge“. Gleichzeitig hat Instagram Werbung in Nutzer-Feeds und Pinterest seine neuen Buy-it-Buttons angekündigt. So ein Zufall aber auch. Google Photos nicht zu vergessen. Nochmal Tim Cook, dieses Mal zitiert von „TechCrunch“:
“We believe the customer should be in control of their own information. You might like these so-called free services, but we don’t think they’re worth having your email, your search history and now even your family photos data mined and sold off for god knows what advertising purpose. And we think some day, customers will see this for what it is.”