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by LegitShady 1858 days ago
>But, can’t we infer from Apple’s earning statements how much they’re monetizing user data? Currently that seems like not much.

That only tells you how they're doing competing against the other ad networks, not how much they're trying to monetize the data. Instead since they couldn't compete, they drew a moat around their devices where other companies can't get the data apple can, now.