Businesses who behave like that and annoy their customers are not going to be
around for ever. Apple are massively losing market share, largely due to
Android, but an increasing amount of it may well be due to customer
dissatisfaction. Even the fanbois are going to be somewhat peeved if they have
to hand over personal data like that. When the majority of people, who don't
have the knowledge or experience of the Groklaw community (nor do they need to,
most people can live their lives very well without being geeks) begin to see
that there are viable, and indeed much more attractive, alternatives to Apple,
M$ and a few others, just get out the popcorn, sit back and watch their
rapid terminal decline. There can be a lag of quite a few years, but most
people are not stupid, and they will catch on, in their own time, to how they
have been abused by certain large corporations. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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