My point is some of the information available now is that historically, companies that respect your privacy today might not tomorrow. And might only be respecting your privacy to get a monopoly on your data so they can exploit it later.

Difference is you can visibly see how Apple makes money.

It's exclusively from premium hardware and services. And not from advertising or monetising your data.

And you can visibly see that quickly disappearing. How are people not able to see past the now like this?

Heh, "visibly see".