Export to cleartext files or markdowns, so you can keep your data if you ever decide to delete your icloud account, or get an android phone, etc.

That doesn’t mean we have to conclude apple is the good guy.

They can both be shitty corporations. This assignment is not graded on curve.

Yes, that’s what’s going to happen, but maybe not for an ads platform. Your rights are on the chopping block, but don’t worry though, because by that point you’ll be convinced that giving up your privacy and any individual thought is entirely within your self interest. Ideas like “Big company, much value, can’t possibly want more money” is pretty much halfway down the line.

Great work doing their work to convince yourself, for them.

Apple is a corporation that has no ideals or principles, by design. They only care about profit at any cost, and currently support a level of privacy they are comfortable with, because their analysts have surmised that supporting this level of privacy gives a net positive of consumer goodwill over lost ad revenue. Once it gets to a point where that inequality flips over to show a profit in selling user data, that’s exactly what they’re going to do. Sure, they’re not going to reverse directions, right away, no. They have an army of extremely well paid, entirely unscrupulous behavioural psychologists and consumer trend analysts whose job it is to convince you that you want whatever it is that the company wants.

All the corporation ass-kissing just makes me sick. It’s like being a sheep in a herd all collectively moving to the edge of a cliff with no power for any individual to change course.

What makes you think apple doesn’t harvest your data for pretty much the same purposes as Google?

As long as you have ANC ear/headphones; noise apps on Android are a dime a dozen. There isn’t an inbuilt noise generator on androids though.