Apple obeys the law.
Policians set the law.
You vote for politicians.
So nu, it makes no sense to blame Apple here.
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#12While waiting for this site to come back up can someone explain the word “appling”? Is that a typo?
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#13While waiting for this site to come back up can someone explain the word “appling”? Is that a typo?
"Apple-ing"
turning a name into a verb is common these days
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#14Apple obeys the law. Policians set the law. You vote for politicians. So nu, it makes no sense to blame Apple here.
it does if you're clickbaiting via ragebait, like she is?
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#15While waiting for this site to come back up can someone explain the word “appling”? Is that a typo?
'Appling' - using Apple products. In this case iCloud SaaS products I believe.
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> Also, why is Apple disabling ADP, and why are they right? Is it because of the UK wanting to snoop on all communications?
Yes.
UK wants Apple to give them a backdoor to E2EE iCloud data, including ADP. The UK gov having such a backdoor to iCloud would also affect non-UK citizens, basically UK wants to snoop on everyone's communication, whether they are under UK jurisdiction or not.
Apple took the route of not offering ADP to the UK instead of complying with the backdoor request, which IMO, is the right move, they shouldn't compromise their service for everyone on the globe because the UK can't break out of it's nanny state fantasy.
But, as always, unless you own and control both ends, you can't really trust that a service does what it says it does.
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#18Something's wrong with the CSS on this page. The end of every line is cut off.
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#19Wouldn’t it be easier to just move away from the UK? (I jest, but actually…)
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As bad as things feel here in the UK (partner is Hungarian, came and settled way pre-brexit, worked continuously and is many ways more British than me even though I was born in England) I'm not at the "Will random unaccountable group working for the prime minister snatch her of the street" levels yet (though I view reform with absolute fucking horror for many reasons).
I hope you and yours are OK though.
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#20Apple obeys the law. Policians set the law. You vote for politicians. So nu, it makes no sense to blame Apple here.
> But I will say that the shutdown of ADP is Apple being on the right side of the geopolitical fight, as inconvenient as that may be to you and me.
Author doesn’t. Not sure who you are disagreeing with.