>It has little interest in your personal data, but it will hold on to it if you want a backup.
I find that statement to be incredibly naive. Personal data has immense value to companies and Apple already has experience in advertising.
There's also a big difference between Apple and Mozilla. Apple clearly wants all your data in their iCloud and the new version of OS X will seemingly push that aggressively. Mozilla on the otherhand uses client side encryption for Sync and you can run your own Sync server. [1]
I find that statement to be incredibly naive. Personal data has immense value to companies and Apple already has experience in advertising.
There's also a big difference between Apple and Mozilla. Apple clearly wants all your data in their iCloud and the new version of OS X will seemingly push that aggressively. Mozilla on the otherhand uses client side encryption for Sync and you can run your own Sync server. [1]
[1] http://docs.services.mozilla.com/howtos/run-sync.html