Apple Letter on iPhone Security Draws Muted Tech Industry Response

Post by mstade » Sat, Feb 20, 2016, 4:20 PM UTC

Matheus28 wrote: post #195

mstade wrote: post #110

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> They may be "do no evil" on privacy, but apple heavily pushes vendor lock in and basically does everything they can to keep you from being able to easily switch to a different vendor. This is often used as an argument against Apple, but having gone back and forth over the years, I just don't think it's true anymore. It certainly was a decade ago, but now I'm finding it hard to think of any issues I've had going fro…

Have you tried plugging an Android into a Mac?

Post by georgespencer » Thu, Feb 25, 2016, 6:42 PM UTC

unethical_ban wrote: post #16

georgespencer wrote: post #6

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This isn't the same thing at all.

Yes, it is. Apple's fight with the US is based on the fact they facilitate the encryption of user data so that even Apple doesn't see content. When the other titans don't have that feature, they have less of a stake in the argument at hand.