Apple and ads — the ugly truth

Rene Ritchie

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Apple, the company that’s been building literal bill-boards to privacy and preaching about not using their customers as products

Apple, the company that’s been standing between Facebook and third-party ad tracking, demanding informed consent

Apple, the company that keeps setting themselves up to be hammered by regulators over pretty much everything they’re doing these days — except for, oh yeah, any of their actual current core products

Apple is rumored to be going… if not all-in on ads, certainly more… inner? And that’s causing everything from complete cognitive dissonance to… renewed accusations of unfair competition

So… why?

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