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[Warren Myers]

Apple hasn't been a "hardware" company in nearly 2 decades - they are a
media company that happens to sell hardware. Their goal is to mediate the
sale of music, video, and app content to their users (for which, btw, they
happen to do a great job).

Yes, they have excellent hardware, too - but that's merely to improve the
content experience.

-WMM

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Igor Partola <igor at igorpartola.com> wrote:

>
> Side note: people often compare Android vs Apple phones and tablet OS's.
> Unlike Google, Apple is not an ad company. They are a hardware company.
> Their priorities are to sell you more hardware, and everything they do is
> motivated by that. This is why I believe Apple when they say they don't
> read iCloud email: they have no reason to (other than when the NSA compels
> them to, but that's the same story for GMail and everyone else).
>


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