A few years ago, users of Internet services began to realize that when an online service is free, you're not the customer. You're the product.
Tim CookCreativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it.
Tim CookOur business is not based on having information about you. Youโre not our product. Our product are these, and this watch, and Macs and so forth. And so we run a very different company. I think everyone has to ask, how do companies make their money? Follow the money. And if theyโre making money mainly by collecting gobs of personal data, I think you have a right to be worried.
Tim Cook