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So, I largely agree with you; I agree with you sufficiently that the app-ish store that I run, Cydia, works much more similarly to Google Play than to the App Store in this regard (although not all the way down to personal phone numbers and addresses; these are not given to the package vendors). However, I can appreciate the other side of this argument, and I think you are failing to draw the analogy the way a normal user would: when you purchase something online from Amazon, do you expect the manufacturer to know who you are? I would actually be very surprised if that is true right now. How about when you purchase something, twenty years ago, in person, from K-Mart; do you expect the people who made the product you are purchasing to know who you are? Sure, it is clear that the K-Mart employee talking to you does, and it is clear that K-Mart's credit card computer does, but the manufacturer? Further, while many people probably didn't realize this, it is clear that K-Mart's computer could (although it probably didn't twenty years ago; almost certainly did ten years ago) keep track of exactly what was purchased, and by whom using what credit cards, for their own data analysis and optimization. But, would you ever have expected K-Mart to put together a massive list of all of the information on all of the people who purchased the shampoo you bought, and then send it to the shampoo company? If you did, I'm pretty certain you would be in the minority, even with today's technology. |