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by Samuel_Michon 4868 days ago
When you buy a TV at Best Buy or online at Amazon, the shop doesn't send your personal information to the TV's manufacturer.

One of the reasons I prefer to buy my software through the Mac App Store instead of at some random developer's website is because I want to limit the number of businesses that have my personal information. Large companies are bad at keeping customer information safe, but I don't even want to think about how individual developers store it.
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fpgeek 4867 days ago
If you buy a TV via Amazon Marketplace, the seller of the TV certainly gets similar personal information (otherwise they can't ship it).
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Samuel_Michon 4867 days ago
That's a valid point. The Mac App Store doesn't keep inventory. They don't first buy the apps wholesale and then resell them. They just list the apps, just like Amazon does for physical products in the Amazon Marketplace.

I do have to say I don't like to buy from the Amazon Marketpkace, I prefer to buy fromm Amazon directly (and that was the scenario I was referring to.)

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