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yeah...not sure i can ditch my macbook pro yet but next phone is not going to be iphone anymore...
Yes because Android has your privacy needs covered! Don't let the door hit you on your way out
The silver lining here is that a lot of people are thinking hard for the first time about what it means to give up the right to install whatever software you want on your own hardware. A devil's bargain always seems like a good deal until the bill comes due.
Three take-aways for me: 1) Android users win this round. 2) Would be great to have some kind of whiz-bang P2P decentralized federated mesh-networked version of Hkmap.live. 3) My opinion on Apple has not improved.
There are no winners in this game, only losers. Google make similar concessions for the Chinese government.
I say that as an Android user.
Three take-aways for me: 1) Android users win this round. 2) Would be great to have some kind of whiz-bang P2P decentralized federated mesh-networked version of Hkmap.live. 3) My opinion on Apple has not improved.
This reads like propaganda. I wonder if they have to do this to keep their supply-chain open. Now would be a good time to take that $200bn and invest in some new factories.
If I were Tim Cook, I'd have said: "Sure, we'll comply with your demands" and then I would have immediately mobilized a covert engineering task force to push out an urgent bug fix that rigs every Apple device in the entirety of China to turn into a Winnie the Pooh brick on Xi's birthday
And that's why you'll never be CEO of Apple.
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> Permanent removal from China would probably be worse for freedom in China over 20 years, Huh? > No company should be expected to back or foment a revolution somewhere, from my perspective they're looking out for their own beet interest and the best interest of their customers. Profit is not an adequate moral compass. I deeply disagree that by forming a corporation, individuals who would otherwise have ethical oblig…
Removal of an app is not enabling the violation of human rights. Now if Apple turned over the name and address of every person who had the app, that'd be the enabling of violating human rights.
This is the line you want to draw? "I didn't help them tear gas the protestors, I just made it harder for protestors to avoid being tear gassed?"
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Removal of an app is not enabling the violation of human rights. Now if Apple turned over the name and address of every person who had the app, that'd be the enabling of violating human rights.
Especially seeing the app doesn’t do anything that the website can’t do.
I imagine the app cached a lot of the map data locally and used a native renderer.
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> Apple caved under pressure from China. The explanation Cook gave is not just an embarrassment, it calls into question the veracity of all of his other statements. What veracity? He is a businessman in a trillion dollar company. He says what pleases the market -- the domestic and the foreign one, not his personal beliefs... The first priority is always profits or growth. If one sincerely cared for the environment fo…
>The first priority is always profits or growth. When Apple split with Google, they did so over access to customer data. At the time wall street was salivating over the huge profits to be gained from mining customer data, and Google was dangling billions of dollars in front of Steve Jobs' face to get him to fold. He didn't, and also turned down lucrative deals offered by Facebook. That was all at a time when user pri…
They instead opted to pursue a business model that played to their own strengths.
You seem to believe that Apple's iMessage service is somehow exempt from Lawful Intercept requirements. Let me quote from those in the EU (China's requirements could be more lenient, but I somehow doubt that):
"3.3 If network operators/service providers initiate encoding, compression or encryption of telecommunications traffic, law enforcement agencies require the network operators/service providers to provide intercepted communications en clair."
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:C...