Comment by cromka
15 days ago
That's a reductionist view. Apple, at least, based a big portion of their image on privacy and encryption. If a company does that and is then proven otherwise, it does a tremendous damage to the brand and stock value and is something shareholders would absolutely sue the board and CEO for. Things like these happened many times in the past.
This isn't that simple.
Nobody today cares about their encryption, their main sales pich now is convenience and luxury. They still need to comply with law which they do. In US or China. Nothing reductionist about stating a fact.
And I agree with that, too. This whole discussion made me realize they pivoted their PR. They probably had to because everyone wants the AI and there's no AI with privacy, at least not with the current processing power of portable devices.