Re:There’s a crack in the iPhone foundation and it could get...
by dkonofalski on Thursday August 12, 2021 @02:32PM
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Even $200B is minuscule when compared to the money that governments can spend to make this a requirement for everyone. People need to push back on the situation that led to Apple even thinking they needed to do something like this. We need to go against the root cause, not the solution one company came up with to try and fight against that cause.
They are sitting on ~$200B in cash. If they want to continue to be viewed as protecting users data and privacy, that is exactly what they should do. Spend some of that money in court, defending the privacy of their users. But they won't, and they will lose the thing that differentiates them for some subset of their users.