Apple Letter on iPhone Security Draws Muted Tech Industry Response

Re:Apple Letter on iPhone Security Draws Muted Tech Industry... by jayd16 on Thursday February 18, 2016 @01:28PM (#11128009)

>This just made me realise that Apple is a true "do no evil" company and not Google, for all its technology powress and fancy marketing. A sad realisation as I have been using Google products for almost everything-- they pitch up everything under the F/OSS banner and it's so tempting.

There's nothing evil about wanting to provide contextual information and to do that they need the context. Its just the nature of the service they provide.

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Re:Apple Letter on iPhone Security Draws Muted Tech Industry... by forgottenpass on Thursday February 18, 2016 @01:40PM (#11128103)

There's nothing evil about wanting to provide contextual information and to do that they need the context.

The argument you've presented is ends justifying the means. I don't mean to imply that there is no convincing arguments to be made involving the points you present, but this is not it.

The face value reading of purely "providing contextual information" is benign af. But that does mean evil can not lurk in implementation constraints, and/or the design decisions made in service of making that presentation monetizable.

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Re:Apple Letter on iPhone Security Draws Muted Tech Industry... by stepanhruda on Thursday February 18, 2016 @01:30PM (#11128032)

Apple does that/is moving into that area too. They use your own hardware instead of their servers to do it.

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