Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), is harshly attacked by the CEO of the company Google, Sundar Pichai, saying that those from Cupertino have made a bad habit of selling something that should not be thought of as a product. More precisely, they criticize the way the Apple company looks at the security of data that is recorded from customers using iDevice/Macs, or Apple Music via Android, those from Cupertino saying that they do not consider customers as a product whose data can be sold, criticizing Google.
Apple has repeatedly boasted that it does not collect intimate data about its customers, mocking the Google company in many situations because of the way it thought of its products, and the way it follows what its users do. The CEO of Google, in his view, it is better to "democratize" the way users can control how data is collected, but also what happens to the data that companies collect about them.
Apple. HARD ATTACK from Google, what the CEO says
The CEO of Google claims that data security cannot be a luxury product that Apple boasts to customers, and that is offered only to those who buy very expensive products. Here he is right, because Apple products are expensive, but not much more expensive than the phones that Google sells, for example, the difference in terms of laptops being much bigger, but many people already know that.
Pichai says Google's approach is to make privacy more democratic. He also called on the US to introduce new legislation protecting users' data. In a thinly veiled snipe at the iPhone-maker, Pichai said that "privacy cannot be a luxury good" that's only available to "people who can afford to buy premium products and services."
Google collects a lot of data about a lot of people from all over the world, and that's because it needs information for the services it offers, and those from Apple have always been against these practices. Tim Cook repeatedly attacked Google because of them, and now it's the turn of the company from Mountain View to retaliate, and it does so according to the replies that came from those in Cupertino, which is perfectly normal.
