Apple Letter on iPhone Security Draws Muted Tech Industry Response
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Re: Apple Letter on iPhone Security Draws Muted Tech Industry Response
#2I'm not really surprised that other companies aren't coming out of the woodwork to make themselves targets. It's clear that in the main they will hold similarly strong views to Apple, but any PR worth their salt will not want the CEO of a company not implicated in something as politically charged as this to enter into the discussion.
For those who oppose this kind of behaviour by the US Government, it's a relief that they picked on Apple: a company with strong opinions about this topic, and the financial wherewithal and gumption to oppose it as robustly as anyone.
Re: Apple Letter on iPhone Security Draws Muted Tech Industry Response
#3What sets Apple apart from Googles and Facebooks is that it's the only company that stores the data in way that Apple itself cannot read it. This is why the others have little to say on the subject - there is no issue of a "backdoor", because there is no wall to begin with when it comes to Google or FB, their business model depends on reading and analyzing your emails and posts.
Re: Apple Letter on iPhone Security Draws Muted Tech Industry Response
#4Don't Twitter, Facebook, Amazon and Google all make most of their money by having access to their customers data? Of course they're not as supportive of privacy as Apple.
Re: Apple Letter on iPhone Security Draws Muted Tech Industry Response
#5Even with all the recent "featuritis" on the software side the unchanged simplicity of Apple's business model makes me totally fall in love with them again.
Tim Cook is the only one doing the right thing here.
Re: Apple Letter on iPhone Security Draws Muted Tech Industry Response
#6Don't Twitter, Facebook, Amazon and Google all make most of their money by having access to their customers data? Of course they're not as supportive of privacy as Apple.
This isn't the same thing at all.
Re: Apple Letter on iPhone Security Draws Muted Tech Industry Response
#7What sets Apple apart from Googles and Facebooks is that it's the only company that stores the data in way that Apple itself cannot read it. This is why the others have little to say on the subject - there is no issue of a "backdoor", because there is no wall to begin with when it comes to Google or FB, their business model depends on reading and analyzing your emails and posts.
Don’t the modern Android phones with Trusted Execution Environment do about the same?
Re: Apple Letter on iPhone Security Draws Muted Tech Industry Response
#8Even with all the recent "featuritis" on the software side the unchanged simplicity of Apple's business model makes me totally fall in love with them again. Tim Cook is the only one doing the right thing here.
> Tim Cook is the only one doing the right thing here.
Because it was Tim Cook who was dragged into this mess. What if the shooter had an Android phone, rather than an iPhone? I'm sure Lary Page would be penning a similar letter, in that situation.
Re: Apple Letter on iPhone Security Draws Muted Tech Industry Response
#9I'm not really surprised that other companies aren't coming out of the woodwork to make themselves targets. It's clear that in the main they will hold similarly strong views to Apple, but any PR worth their salt will not want the CEO of a company not implicated in something as politically charged as this to enter into the discussion. For those who oppose this kind of behaviour by the US Government, it's a relief that…
This doesn't sound as a freedom of speech but more as oppressive government. Something wrong if people don't want to express their opinions because of fear.
Re: Apple Letter on iPhone Security Draws Muted Tech Industry Response
#10What sets Apple apart from Googles and Facebooks is that it's the only company that stores the data in way that Apple itself cannot read it. This is why the others have little to say on the subject - there is no issue of a "backdoor", because there is no wall to begin with when it comes to Google or FB, their business model depends on reading and analyzing your emails and posts.
Apple also makes most of it's money by selling phones, not user information...