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Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals by JakeTheAndroid on Friday January 06, 2017 @02:22PM (#13339349)
Yes, it is a security standard issue, but it's enforced with hardware. So, while this is there for a reason (possibly even setting a standard for these IoT devices), it's not simply a lack of developers building secure software. It's with the hardware not being spec'd to meet these "arbitrary" security standards. I say arbitrary because clearly no one else in the game is using it. So, I think the OP is correct here, Apple has made a product that simply doesn't work with other products due to their own decisions.

Edit: Typos

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Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals by lovich on Saturday January 07, 2017 @12:46PM (#13345411)
As a disclaimer I'm not really an apple fan and have found all of their products to be blah to me.

Considering the rise in IoT based DDoS attacks and the ftc going after companies like D-Link for poor security practices, aren't security standards like Apple is requiring something we want to commend?

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