[pdkl95]

You seem to be under the impression that you can create one of those "free accounts" without apple tracking those activities. Privacy is not having anybody be able to log your activity, not "everybody but one company I like".

Apple's walled garden approach to everything makes apple one of the worst offenders with regards to not just privacy, but freedom as well.

[acdha]

That's a great area to discuss but not relevant to what we were talking about. The point I was referring to was the specific claim that you needed to give Apple a credit card to use OS X.