Comment by Krasnol
1 day ago
It's always hilarious to see how far people here are ready to go to twist some bad Apple news into something which might be considered good.
I mean seriously. Apple making a stand? What stand? They are ripping security out of their customers hands. Customers which are already dependent on the company's decision in their locked in environment.
There is absolutely nothing good about it, and you dragging Android into it and making it look like it's even worse is suspicious. You can have full control over your Android device. Something impossible on an Apple phone. You can make your Android device safer than your iPhone.
There is an upside (if you trust them) -- they're pulling a feature rather than adding a back door to it. Supposedly, anyway.
Well, sure it could be worse.
Doesn't make that one good, though.
The government forced them to pull the feature. Would you rather they left a toggle-switch that doesn't actually do anything? Or are you thinking they should just pull out of the EU altogether?
Making a stand would be leaving UK (UK is not in the EU) altogether.
This is almost as bad as building a backdoor. This is leaving your customer in the rain.
Fortunately for Apple, most of them won't even know or realize it.
No, this tells the customer that backups to iCloud are not secure from the government. Adding the back door would make people think that there was more security than there was. Transparency is always better than deception.
Dropping the feature that the UK was targeting allows their customers to use all the other ways that Apple does things. Leaving the UK altogether is the nuclear option denying their customers of everything. “Apple should just leave the UK/China” never takes into consideration the millions of customers that bought or might want to buy in the future. Nobody would better off if Apple withdraws from a country.
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> This is leaving your customer in the rain.
vs. taking their phone away??? Idk if you're trolling or what but I would be incredibly pissed at Apple if they deprecated my phone over something like this.
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Making a stand would be displaying a full-screen notification about why they cannot provide protection for British users' data and which party voted for this.
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