XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.pri   
   acy.anon-server   
   XPost: comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2024-09-23 22:17:42 +0000, Newyana2 said:   
   > On 9/23/2024 4:58 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >>   
   >> In what manner to Apple users care less about privacy than Windows users?   
   >   
   >    Apple babies their customers and tells them what they want. Their   
   > customers, in turn, trust them, despite having no reason for   
   > doing so. (Apple runs their own ad business, after all.)   
   >   
   >    A good example is the "feature" to back up an iPhone online just   
   > in case yours gets lost. Few Windows users would trust their   
   > computer's contents to Microsoft.   
      
   Comparing Apples and lemons doesn't really work. Very few phones run   
   Microsoft Windows.  :-p Most non-Apple phones run Android, and they do   
   backup to servers at Google and/or the manufacturer if you want it to.   
      
      
      
      
   > And most are not so tech-illiterate that they'd need to.   
      
   The vast majority of people using any device are "tech-illiterate".   
   They do the basics, leave most settings on the defaults, and simply use   
   their device without wanting or needing all the geeky gimmickry.   
      
   It's only the geeks and nerds around the Usenet Newsgroups that believe   
   everybody does the same as them and their five geeky friends.  :-\   
      
   Those of us doing tech support in the real world know better. And as   
   someone else said, most tech support is for Windows and Android,   
   because Apple stuff "simply works" most of the time.   
      
      
      
      
   >     I think this is difficult for Mac devotees to understand. They think   
   > they're in a club or on a team, opposed to Windows users. People on   
   > Windows don't think that way. It's just a computer, like a Ford Focus is   
   > just a car.   
   >   
   >    Though to be fair, in my experience at least 90% of all people   
   > don't much care about privacy if it requires any effort. Apple   
   > fans are just a bit more ninny-headed about it. Part of the reason   
   > they use Apple devices is so that they won't have to think. (Most   
   > of the people I know who switched to Macs did it for one reason:   
   > They believed Macs were immune to malware, so they wouldn't   
   > have to think about it. Essentially, Mac is today's AOL.)   
      
   There are numerous reason people use Apple devices. The fact that there   
   is basically no malware (despite what the scaremongering anti-malware   
   makers and anti-Apple trolls love to report) is only one of them.   
      
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