Why Apple Called Android A "Massive Tracking Device" In An Internal Presentation
As part of an ongoing antitrust trial against Google, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) posted new exhibits. In one of those, an internal presentation attached to an email sent by Apple's Eddy Cue to Tim Cook in 2013 highlighted how the company competes with Google in terms on privacy.
Why Apple thinks it's better than Google
In one of those slides, the text states that "Android is a massive tracking device." In a different slide, Apple explained how its approach to privacy is better than Google. The slide claimed that Apple combines data across services only to provide a customer experience, while Google combines data across all of its services.
In a different example, Apple said that Google's voice search is tied to a user's Google account, while Siri's user data is tied only to assistant itself. The presentation was part of Apple SVP Eddy Cue's testimony in the Google antitrust trial in September this year.
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The DOJ has accused Google of monopolising the search engine market by making exclusive deals with device manufacturers so that it might be chosen as the default search engine on their products. Earlier, it was reported that Google was paying $18-20 billion a year in order to remain the default search engine on the iPhone.
What does the testimony reveal?
Most of Cue's testimony from September was hidden. However, Apple's 2013 presentation has now been made public. Even though both the tech giants love to throw shots at each other, it's noteworthy that an internal Google email from 2016 shows that Apple wanted data sharing with Google to be both ways.
A Google executive, in the email, said that Google doesn't share information about what users click on in Google Search. In a response to that email is a lot of redacted data exchange - shedding light on how little we know about what goes on between Apple and Google.
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