If it's free, somebody is paying for it.
I wondered why the big push to download it.
If it's free, somebody is paying for it.
I feel the same way, will NOT be upgrading to 10.Nightshade beat me to it. There are articles all over the web like he posted. I think they portray it worse than it is, but there is definitely some devious code in there. When you turn some of it off, it'll throw up bogus error messages making you think you aren't sending stuff, but it goes ahead and does it anyway.
I'm done with Microsoft.
We believe in telling you up front exactly what’s going to happen to your personal information and asking for your permission before you share it with us. And if you change your mind later, we make it easy to stop sharing with us. Every Apple product is designed around those principles. When we do ask to use your data, it’s to provide you with a better user experience.
We’re publishing this website to explain how we handle your personal information, what we do and don’t collect, and why. We’re going to make sure you get updates here about privacy at Apple at least once a year and whenever there are significant changes to our policies.
Our business model is very straightforward: We sell great products. We don’t build a profile based on your email content or web browsing habits to sell to advertisers. We don’t “monetize” the information you store on your iPhone or in iCloud. And we don’t read your email or your messages to get information to market to you. Our software and services are designed to make our devices better. Plain and simple.
http://www.apple.com/privacy/
Reality? IDK. But they have this....
In the past they've been pretty stellar as a matter of policy. In practice it might be different, but I just don't get the same feeling with MS.
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