Statista User Agreement Survey: Apple users may need to spend half an hour Read the full text
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Regarding the terms of use/user agreements of major technology companies, Statista has just given a ranking of high and low in the latest infographic shared. Although among the 18-34 year-old respondents, up to 97% would not directly click to confirm. However, the remaining 3% of the minority group obviously cannot be composed of lawyers and other legal professionals. Take the Apple ID additional statement that must be created to use Apple services as an example. The number of words has reached 7,314. If an average of 240 words can be scanned per minute, it will take 30 minutes to finish reading.
However, after looking at the Statista infographic, you will find that Apple can only be ranked fourth.
The most lengthy user agreement is the 15260 words of the software giant Microsoft. If it is a novel, so many words can already make up a pretty good novella. Unfortunately, it takes more than an hour for users to finish reading this boring document.
Ranked second is the streaming music service provider Spotify, which requires about 35 minutes of reading time for 8,600 words. Ranked third is the popular short video application TikTok, which takes about 31 minutes for 2451 words.
Ranked 4-7 are cloud video service provider Zoom, social application Tinder, and online ride-hailing platform Uber. It takes about 30/53/24 minutes of reading time for 7243/6215/5658 words.
In contrast, the 14th ranked Instagram user agreement is “simplified” to only 2,451 words, and it is expected to be read within 10 minutes.
Although Statista did not specify the corresponding service agreement in detail, when you create an Apple ID, you will first see a link to the privacy page, and then jump to the apple.com/privacy homepage, which contains the full version of the privacy policy (PDF ).
In addition, products such as Apple subscriptions and iCloud cloud services also have corresponding terms of use, and legal wording varies in different market regions. However, for ordinary people, they are quite obscure.
