The Apple/Facebook/Google Fracas

Tim Cook shut the behemoths down. The charlatans at Facebook and Google couldn't work, couldn't even know what was for lunch, because their internal operations run on Apple apps.

Proving that distribution is king and privacy matters will be solved by business, not the government.

Those in the government are too stupid, they can't understand the issues, never mind enact rules of change.

So it comes down to this. Facebook and Google make money on your data. It's the only way Facebook exists, without showing you targeted ads, it's dead in the water. And sure, Google has search ads, but the internet has evolved and the two companies triumph on advertising, which is based on your data, you're coughing up your privacy and in most cases are unaware of it.

Privacy. The number one issue today. Fake news is based upon it. And income inequality is secondary to it. It may be 2019 on the calendar, but it's 1984 in truth. You don't get the same search results as your neighbor, you don't see the same ads, because you are targeted based on your history/data. They know everything about you, not only your name. Did you ever Google yourself? It's horrifying. You may have an unlisted number, but it's findable online. As well as everybody you've ever been married to or related to and their ages and locations and...that's just the tip of the iceberg.

They target you based on income and location, and we all know the internet is turning our world into the Tower of Babel, but what most don't realize is these companies like Facebook and Google whose business model is based on your data are pouring gasoline upon it, fanning the flames.

How much is your privacy worth to you?

If it's a lot, buy Apple products.

Because Apple's business model is different from that of Google and Facebook and Snapchat and too much of the rest of the net. Apple charges you a fortune for their products, and protects your privacy in return. Of course, of course, they had that Facetime glitch, and there's no excuse for it, but at least they admitted it and are fixing it. Whereas Zuck testifies to the contrary in the WSJ and then makes his fortune on your data.

In other words, your best friend on the internet is Tim Cook.

He may not be technologically innovative like Steve Jobs, but he has values. Sure, he could stand up to the Chinese some more, but he's leading the charge for morality amongst the techies, and that's significant.

Facebook and Google broke the App Store rules, quite consciously, and Cook spanked them, took them off the service. We're dependent upon these wankers to self-police, but can we trust them? OF COURSE NOT! Come on, like Sheryl and Mark are gonna do anything that hurts the bottom line? As for Google, they literally own the Android operating system, they're not gonna do anything that hurts them, they give it away for the DATA!

That's why America is so screwed up. People think it's about bringing back coal, manufacturing in the U.S., when the truth is our wealth is now based upon technological innovation, which is being hobbled by the government's visa limits. So now the brilliant South Asian computer scientists create that value for India instead of America. But that's right, immigrants are the enemy. Doing jobs you're too stupid to do or those which are beneath you, like cleaning and picking.

And creativity. Forget that Netflix is running circles around its cable competitors, do you know that it's a global company? That's right, an American enterprise that's bringing those foreign dollars in, if not home. But you don't believe in globalization. The ship has already sailed. Look at Brexit. The economic consequences will hobble the nation. Who's gonna build their HQ in the U.K?

But back to Apple.

It's the business model...data or on the sale of products. You think Facebook and Google are free, but they are not, you're paying with your data.

And Tim Cook just said that data should not be collected via Apple. He's making a stand!

Maybe this is more important than a high stock price, than Wall Street. That's what's ruined America, which the MAGA people don't get, the unbridled pursuit of profits with no conscience.

I could go deeper into this fracas, but I won't, even though it's not that complicated.

I'm just saying as America focuses on a game that kills athletes, people much less sexy are fighting the good fight. They are the ones who need to be lauded. They're not ripping you off, they're standing up for you.

But ain't that Americans, always fighting the last war, when a new one has begun.

Privacy. If you expect the government to keep yours, you're thinking someone in D.C. has a technical clue, and that is untrue. People with less traction than the Kardashians are fighting today's battles for tomorrow's world and most just don't get it, I'm beginning to agree with Bill Maher that everybody should not be able to vote, they're too uninformed.

And the world runs on information.

This could be the last battle folks. The days of internet startups are history. There are only a few companies left. And the only one on your side is Apple.

You can make a stand and buy Cupertino products, but you're too cheap.

But believe me, you're paying the price.

"Apple Shows Facebook Who Has the Power in an App Dispute": https://nyti.ms/2G39Yyi

(Notice there are only 23 comments, even though this article was on the front page of the print newspaper, but the story is not sexy enough for the proletariat.)


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