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Apple only does this because they take your money seriously --- a lot of your money.

If you think about it, they really didn't have much choice. It's becoming increasingly difficult for them to justify the outrageous cost of Apple's walled ecosystem. Perfectly good phones with similar features and capabilities are available for a fraction of the cost.

So what can Apple offer to justify their extortion? Pay up and we won't burn your privacy. The cost to Apple --- zero, nada. It's really almost a mafia style tactic. They're selling you something that already belongs to you.

Zuckerberg should have seen it coming. Next up, Google will copy Apple and start building similar social media features into Android that encroach on Facecrook's market. The required features are already there, they just need to be repackaged.

The only reasonable way for Facecrook to resist is by building their own competing hardware. But they already tried that years ago. Bye, bye Facecrook, I'm not going to miss ya.