Comment by diebeforei485
4 years ago
This is a reduction in privacy. Do what you want on your servers, but hands off my phone.
Also the whole "Apple is planning to encrypt iCloud Photos end-to-end anyway" thing is just fanfiction. I'll believe it when they announce it.
> This is a reduction in privacy. Do what you want on your servers, but hands off my phone.
Apple devices might not be precisely the smartest purchase if the concept of your hardware is important to you.
> Apple devices might not be precisely the smartest purchase if the concept of your hardware is important to you.
Maybe a handful of HN users are aware of that, but the majority of users think that their property belongs to them.
It also goes against what Apple marketing says about privacy and your data. I wouldn't fault most consumers for not understanding that Apple's PR doesn't reflect reality.
Actually the fact that you don’t really own your Apple hardware is supportive for the Apple’s privacy arguments. Since it does not really matter in that case where those images are scanned, as long as the end result is the same.
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As you are well aware, the market is not very competitive and there aren't dozens of vendors to pick from.
"Use something else" (or even more laughably, "start your own") is not a reasonable argument anymore.
> As you are well aware, the market is not very competitive and there aren't dozens of vendors to pick from.
Where I come from a dozen means 12. Even just LineageOS has support for phones from 30 different vendors.
https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
And LineageOS is far from the only way to start taking ownership of a device. And let's be real here: Pretty much anything will beat Apple on that particular spectrum.
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There are plenty of phones. Even Linux-like or totally different (like Sailfish). It just seem that you are not ready to make compromises.
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