What Businessweek got wrong about Apple
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#2Bloomberg never said you bought supermicro servers they said you bought supermicro motherboard. Is Apple’s legal team creatively writing to misinterpret the fax
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#3My personal theory is this is a ploy to get people to believe Trump's anti-china narrative meant to distract from the Russia narrative.
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#4In an appearance this morning on Bloomberg Television, reporter Jordan Robertson made further claims about the supposed discovery of malicious chips, saying, “In Apple’s case, our understanding is it was a random spot check of some problematic servers that led to this detection.”
As we have previously informed Bloomberg, this is completely untrue. Apple has never found malicious chips in our servers.
Finally, in response to questions we have received from other news organisations since Businessweek published its story, we are not under any kind of gag order or other confidentiality obligations.
It can’t get much clearer than that. The whole story is quite weird. I don’t know who should be believed but I’ve never read any such vehement denial. If Apple is lying they risk quite a bit of credibility here
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#5They complain too much...
Apple apparently entirely dropped Supermicro as a supplier over a few weeks when they were planning a large order(source: theregister.co.uk).
The ones who should strongly deny such a story, if it is indeed incorrect, are Supermicro. Is there a statement from them?
Edit: yes, there is. They are "not aware of any investigation". That tells me all I need to know...
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#7They complain too much... Apple apparently entirely dropped Supermicro as a supplier over a few weeks when they were planning a large order(source: theregister.co.uk). The ones who should strongly deny such a story, if it is indeed incorrect, are Supermicro. Is there a statement from them? Edit: yes, there is. They are "not aware of any investigation". That tells me all I need to know...
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#8Very strong denial. Frankly, if true and Apple is saying this kind of a "no" shareholders will sue.
Two possibilities: Left hand doesn't know (or can't know) what the right hand is doing at Apple. Top secret?
Bloomberg was a victim of a hoax, some nation state (huh huhm!) wants to target China for something so they need a story.
Based on what I've read here these past days, I'm leaning towards the second one. Apple can hire the best or all Infosec companies in the world if security was compromised. In other words, they'd know by now, even if they missed it originally. Cat and mouse and all...
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#9My personal theory is this is a ploy to get people to believe Trump's anti-china narrative meant to distract from the Russia narrative.
The Russia narrative makes no sense Russia and Saudi Arabia would surely have preferred Hillary who promised to outlaw fracking. Now the US is becoming the biggest Oil exporter. Russian GDP is like 40% from Oil, Saudi Arabia even more.
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#10They complain too much... Apple apparently entirely dropped Supermicro as a supplier over a few weeks when they were planning a large order(source: theregister.co.uk). The ones who should strongly deny such a story, if it is indeed incorrect, are Supermicro. Is there a statement from them? Edit: yes, there is. They are "not aware of any investigation". That tells me all I need to know...
They did: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-04/the-big-h...
Yes saw that and edited.