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by whammywon 1961 days ago
Perhaps, but who is to say that they don't have plans to branch out into that business?

It's possible that they have no intent to do so, but a corporation's primary interest is making profit. And what would be a simple, yet significant, source of new revenue? Selling user data.

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They tried offering an ad service called iAd that would do things the "Apple" way. No one used it.