It’s all for show, kabuki theater kid gloves type stuff between the tech giants. Their bottom lines all depend on each other and they all eat at the same restaurants anyways. Apple knows people would just start buying other brand’s phones if they took a real stance on blocking google/twitter/facebook/etc. They can’t afford a real stance on privacy, they just beat up on the small fish so it fools the tech illiterate rubes.
It’s all for show, kabuki theater kid gloves type stuff between the tech giants. Their bottom lines all depend on each other and they all eat at the same restaurants anyways. Apple knows people would just start buying other brand’s phones if they took a real stance on blocking google/twitter/facebook/etc. They can’t afford a real stance on privacy, they just beat up on the small fish so it fools the tech illiterate rubes.