Google Fi: My Experience

[Aloha_Shooter]

I wouldn't sign up for GoogleFi simply because it's Google. Those bastages are compiling more than enough information on me and mine without my permission. Verizon and AT&T make their money by selling overpriced "services". Apple makes their money by selling overpriced hardware. Google makes its money by selling you. I use Ting on my old phone as my backup service and for foreign travel (I don't give anyone overseas my regular use phone number, not hotels or anything).

[Jer]

I wouldn't sign up for GoogleFi simply because it's Google. Those bastages are compiling more than enough information on me and mine without my permission. Verizon and AT&T make their money by selling overpriced "services". Apple makes their money by selling overpriced hardware. Google makes its money by selling you. I use Ting on my old phone as my backup service and for foreign travel (I don't give anyone overseas my regular use phone number, not hotels or anything).

I take it that, based on what you said, you think that Apple is NOT farming your information/data to use for their purposes?

[Aloha_Shooter]

I take it that, based on what you said, you think that Apple is NOT farming your information/data to use for their purposes?

They do some farming but nothing like Google, Facebook, and Amazon do. Farming your data is how Google makes money. Apple makes its cash hand-over-fist by charging an order of magnitude more than cost for their hardware.

[Jer]

They do some farming but nothing like Google, Facebook, and Amazon do. Farming your data is how Google makes money. Apple makes its cash hand-over-fist by charging an order of magnitude more than cost for their hardware.

If you think that Apple isn't doing EXACTLY what Google is you need to do more research. Saying Apple charges more for the same lack of privacy isn't a selling point.

[Delfuego]

They all collect data and store and sell that data. Some just do it better than others.

[Gman]

I'll just put this here...

Apple’s iPhone is so good at protecting privacy, advertisers are giving up and switching to Android

Apple views iPhone privacy as a key iOS feature
Because Apple views privacy as a cornerstone feature of the iPhone, app tracking on iOS is turned off by default. As a result, users who are okay with apps tracking their activity must now opt-in. Early reports suggest that 96% of iOS users aren’t opting into app tracking, which is exactly the scenario platforms like Facebook were afraid of. A more recent report indicates that more than 75% of iOS users aren’t opting into app tracking. Regardless, the takeaway here is clear: most users aren’t keen on app tracking when pro-actively presented with a choice.

[Irving]

That's just bad reporting of statistics. What I read, is that 95% of people don't meddle around in the settings section of their apps.

[Delfuego]

Apple is collecting, don't kid yourself.

They are also have plans for distribution of data within their own echo system. It appears they are building an advertising platform (to compete with FB, GOOG, ETC) so the data they collect can be leveraged, by Apple, for it's own competing products. The simply aren't "giving away" collected data to FB anymore. Once their Apple advertising platform is built their story will change.

Remember when Google was "Don't be evil"?

[Gman]

I never said Apple was above reproach. Just throwing it out there for discussion. I like the idea of making people opt-in since it's usually the other way around.

[Irving]

I never said Apple was above reproach. Just throwing it out there for discussion. I like the idea of making people opt-in since it's usually the other way around.

That's the more reasonable way for sure. I get pissed every time Google tells me I'm running out of data storage. Really Google? As long as I'm not running out of personal data to sell, then I shouldn't be running out of storage, thank you very much.