Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Apple claims to protect users from "ripoffs" ROFL" video.

  1. I mean, I'm not sure how many people realize this, but you know... Apple, the richest western capitalist company, operates in similar ways as regimes like CCP. You can do business inside our premisses as long as we get a cut and you adhere to our arbitrary standards, it's all in the name of "protection of our citizens", you can always get help for our products as long as it's state sponsored help that adhere to arbitrary rules we make, you should admire us for what we do, external criticism is either dismissed or blamed on costumers, costumers have plenty of choices on what to do, as long as it's Apple sanctioned choices... No wonder Apple got so easy in China and have no qualms adhering to CCP censorship and demands there, while it paints itself as defender of privacy in the rest of the world. Ever wonder how Apple managed to become a major China brand while Android mostly had to give rise to chinese smartphone brands instead? People don't get that opaqueness and one sided ruling is not the same as being a defender of privacy and security. It's puzzling how Apple manages to still keep selling straight faced this charade that it's defending user privacy. A company taking exclusivity to collect and exploit user data for themselves and impeding other companies to do it might look good at first, but guess what, they still collect it and exploit it nonetheless. It's yet another monopolistic practice ill disguised as something good "for the people", and because you don't know how the company operates internally due to it's walled garden paranoid proprietary nature, at any time they can start selling it all and you can do nothing about it.... in fact, you'd likely never even know about it. It's a company that both has no reason to be trusted, but that is the most trusted one nonetheless. I just don't get it. There is no privacy and security without independent auditing and access to inner workings, period. The less you can see inside it, or the less the company lets independent, 3rd party, neutral people, researchers or groups to check how good privacy and security protections are, the less it should be considered trustworthy. And the fact that every step of the way Apple makes their stuff more and more proprietary, more and more opaque and closed off, more and more interdependent and impossible to replace and access... it falls into the same trappings of a lack of privacy - centralized power. In essence, it has the same issue of a nanny state. People can feel comfortable and complacent with power run that way, but it is so easy and ripe for abuse that fundamentally, you are giving away your rights and ability to fight off corruption and wrongdoing because you trusted it too much.
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