Weirdly, the same "they all do it" cynicism that is used to justify certain political excesses pervades in tech. I constantly see people dismissing Apple's emphasis on user privacy as being entirely a matter of window dressing ("if you don't think Apple is selling your data you're a naive fan boy"). I guess this is part and parcel of the longstanding "Apple Sux" worldview wherein anything remotely laudable about Apple is either a lie or a crass money grab, but I don't see what's so hard to grasp about Apple making privacy a differentiating selling point. Or that as a selling point it behooves them to, you know, actually maintain user privacy since if they don't it will inevitably come out (as in the recent "human beings review some Siri convos") and erode that very point of differentiation.
That which doesn't kill you weakens you slightly and makes you less able to cope until you're completely incapacitated
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