Comment by quitit
4 months ago
What's stopping Apple from launching an AppleTV-esque device that functions as personal iCloud storage?
The design of ADP is that even taking control of the data centre won't allow access to the information held within. Decentralising the service makes it significantly harder to write ham-fisted legislation that aims to prevent tech companies from offering secure products.
Additionally there isn't a technical need for ADP to interface with iCloud. Apple could feasibly release free software for DIY ADP.
My expectation is that either the UK will alter the law, or Apple will work around it. I don't think we're looking at the end of this.
> Apple > freely release
If Apple can't get you to pay for it, it won't happen. They only pay as much lip service to privacy as they need for marketing purposes
Commercial security is pure theatre at the end of the day. Apple could pretend to make a big stink, release a new encrypted Time Machine or leave the UK... but why? None of that makes them money. It's a band-aid for the user freedom that was amputated decades ago.
I don't expect Apple to fight this like, say, the EU regulations. Without a profit incentive, it's hard to mobilize Apple to seek a solution.
>release a new encrypted Time Machine or leave the UK... but why? None of that makes them money.
Would this device be free?