[rickdeckard]

I think their idea of the future is very much centered around selling the attention and purchasing power of their customers.

That's not meant to be rude "Anti-Apple", that's what their business strategy is obviously based on, including implementing lots of features to prevent their users from voluntarily providing attention or sharing valuable information for free to anyone without Apple's involvement.

If that's your strategy, someone forcing you to allow your customers to roam free is quite a big threat. Something you might be willing to spend one of your trillion dollars to fight against.

So I believe we haven't seen the peak of this yet...

[christkv]

I think that’s coming fast as slumping sales will put the focus on making more money from services and probably soon selling data