Lots of negativity/skepticism here which is reasonable I would say given tech companies' abuse of our trust. I for one, am happy that Apple can afford to offer privacy as one of its strong suites. Whether they can do it because of their business model or not is moot IMO. Everyone is here to make money, I would rather have someone who doesn't have to sell every aspect of my life to do it.
Trying to sell something to privacy obsessed tech segment is a futile effort. They are never happy and don’t want to pay for anything anyway.
But that is not their target market anyway. It is the general public and these comments are just noise.
I don't think that's true, there's quite a thriving privacy based market for the tech obsessed. take librem one and purism's products, the VPN market, the pinephone, proton mail, or lavabit as examples.
https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/
But yes, these comments are likely just noise.
Are they profitable? Because they exist don’t mean they are “thriving”.
Thriving may be a bit strong - These are small potatoes compared to apple, sure, but these are tech obsessed people buying privacy orientated products.
Librem 5 raised over $2.1 million
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/10/purism-librem-5-crowdfun...
The VPN market is measured in the billions.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/542817/worldwide-virtual...
People spend money in this area. The privacy orientated crowd is willing to put their money where their mouth is.
Please keep orientating products towards it.
edit: sorry, for some reason I'm unable to reply to the comment below. Purism raised 2.1 million pre-selling their the librem 5, not in shares or anything.
You need to wait a bit for the reply button to appear. The site has a delay to prevent discussions from getting too heated. (The delay increases the deeper a comment thread gets.)
Woah, that's a really thoughtful feature. Is there somewhere I can find all of the, like, rules of HN similar to this one?
I learned about the reply button because I too was once wondering why it sometimes doesn't appear, and I Googled it.