Comment by MortyWaves
16 days ago
I have zero clue where you’re getting this from. iPhone is incredibly popular and every politician has one.
16 days ago
I have zero clue where you’re getting this from. iPhone is incredibly popular and every politician has one.
True, the UK is one of the few European countries where iOS is bigger than android just like in the US. I work in mobile management and we see those a lot in northern Europe. Where they're scarce is in South and East Europe.
Here in Spain no person has even tried to SMS me (which is the fallback for iMessage which I don't have) for 6 years or so :). I also don't have RCS enabled. It's all WhatsApp and Telegram.
Yes. Due to higher prices, iPhones are more popular in richer countries.
Yeah indeed.
The SE is also relatively expensive in Europe. And in Spain Apple seems to have completely removed all trace of the SE from their website. Strange enough. Didn't check other EU sites.
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It's very likely that iCloud is outright disabled via MDM on those politician iPhones anyway, so they probably wouldn't even notice.
In the UK the employment arrangements of politicians are very unconventional. In some ways, they're more like independent contractors than salaried employees.
If your MP has an office in their constituency? They rent the office and buy all the computers and desks and printers and whatnot out of their own pocket, and get the expenses reimbursed later on.
The separation between work life and professional life is also extremely blurry. After all, you have to build up a network of supporters and donors and people in the party who like you before you can get elected. So hundreds of your best supporters and closest allies already have your personal number saved against your name in their phone.
I think they do not have MDM.
The phones tend to be personal phones. We found that out when there was a big investigation trying to retrieve Whatsapp messages.