people worry about a lot of stuff. Some inconsequential to the grand scheme of things.

>You're free to burn your life savings after all

You are indeed free to. I don't recommend it, but I'm not your moral guardian nor therapist.

> Either Apple is complicit or game companies are totally justified and deserve praise for figuring out how to squeeze billions of dollars from regular people. Both cannot be true.

I don't see why not. Apple can allow for it and game companies can reap the rewards.

I'm not even sure what the argument is at this point. I just wanted to point out that the ability to buy and spend thousands on a single video game isn't related to privacy concerns/settings. Unless your password was hacked and someone else did it, what connection is there?

Caring for the customer is not limited to privacy. One could argue that protecting them from blatant financial loot is also something to strive for. Since Apple delights in this massive scam, one is led to believe that they don't really care about the customer. The marketing push around "privacy" is simply marketing.

Sure. But Apple (To my knowledge) never said "we care about you". That's very different from "we value your privacy".

>The marketing push around "privacy" is simply marketing.

I don't disagree, but it feels like low hanging capitalism bashing to attack a company over something they never stated. We are well past the 90's age where companies tried to make their customers feel like family. Companies these days very blantatly make it clear that they care about money first, so shaming Apple for caring about money just feels like drowning a fish in water.

I may not really want the government to be involved in such matters, but it's a better attack vector than appealing to a coporation's humanity.