-San Francisco Chronicle, The Tech Chronicles, February 17, 2012 by James Temple
http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/author/jamestemple/
Apple operates from an entirely different frame. Instead of spreading mediocre “free” products, the user pays for Apple products, and thus the customer is the consumer. For Google and the cabal of “free” service providers out there, the customer is the advertising industry.
-San Francisco Chronicle, Dot.Commentary, February 18, 2012 by James Temple
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/17/BUSO1N9ASP.DTL
Chris Hoofnagle, a digital privacy expert at UC Berkeley’s law school, said there’s a corporate tone-deafness within the engineering-centric culture of Google that leads to these sorts of mistakes. “To the engineer, cookie blocking appears to be a technical error that they should try to solve,” he said. “It’s very difficult for them to accept the frame that some people do not want this tracking.”