I'm happy that Tim is giving the big fat finger to Obama's anti-4th Amendment Justice Department.
You guys are seriously ridiculous and aren't even looking at the analogy at all. If this backdoor is made, the world would be the host and the backdoor and its potential vulnerability to fall into the hands of baddies is the cancer. He could've said virus, but either way his point would remain the same. It would be a cancer that eats away at our personal security. You guys all need to seriously get a grip.I find that incredibly distasteful to compare a software patch to friggin cancer!! Hardly the same bloody thing TIM! Well it suites his maturity I guess to come out with distasteful taglines like this. I don't believe he thinks before opening his mouth ever.
If the fact someone used a term and you get butt hurt... then you choose to post that butt hurt, don't cry when people call you out. My father died of cancer, Mother in law has breast cancer, brother had a cancerous tumor removed from hip.... My family and life has been touch by cancer over and over and I have no issue with what he said..... you do fine but don't get even more butt hurt when some one challenges you. Free speech is awesome.... Tim used it, you did and so did I!!
You have my sincere and deepest sympathy. I lost a close friend to pancreatic cancer on February 14 and attended his funeral on Monday. A truly dreadful disease.
I'm not offended by the wording personally but I think it's a poor analogy and doesn't help Apple at all. I can't help feeling that Tim blew a golden opportunity to get Apple's message across. I think the use of the word cancer will, unfortunately, grab all the headlines.
Provide links or you're just BS'ng.Do your research if you truly care.
Several reports reveal Apple was_asked_ (privately) to help. Slamming the door in the Government's face, then and only then did the FBI go public.
If the haters here were open minded, I'd post links to the articles. However any source that the Apple Liberals don't like is discredited. Therefore it's up to you if you care.
Google is your friend.![]()
You guys are seriously ridiculous and aren't even looking at the analogy at all. If this backdoor is made, the world would be the host and the backdoor and its potential vulnerability to fall into the hands of baddies is the cancer. He could've said virus, but either way his point would remain the same. It would be a cancer that eats away at our personal security. You guys all need to seriously get a grip.
Do your research if you truly care.
Several reports reveal Apple was_asked_ (privately) to help. Slamming the door in the Government's face, then and only then did the FBI go public.
If the haters here were open minded, I'd post links to the articles. However any source that the Apple Liberals don't like is discredited. Therefore it's up to you if you care.
Google is your friend.![]()
Provide links or you're just BS'ng.
This entire comment just proved my point.Oh I'm sorry, I do apologise for being sensitive to his pathetic tagline and your apparent objection to MY OPINION in this free speech world we live in.
I seriously suggest you do NOT reply to anyone who dislikes the comment he made as it is their opinion, not yours and it's certainly not yours to object to mate. You have NO idea how some people feel about the disease.
Perhaps I should bend over for Apple no matter what like some on here seem to? Would that be acceptable? To NEVER EVER object to anything they say or do? Would that make you happy?
I'm totally stealing that.Until then, all filler, no killer.
This entire comment just proved my point.
Could this be Apple's finest hour?
Practicing what they have preached for years, putting their money where their mouth is, risking a lot of bad publicity.
It would have been so easy to back down at the start.
I remember the criticism Cook and Apple got for being outspoken on social issues, especially around discrimination and equal marriage. The argument being a company should keep out of governance, and just do their thing. And such a short time later we see how vital outspoken companies now are: defending the public against government encroachment on civil liberties and triggering a global debate that will probably wind up in the supreme court.
Whatever your opinion, Apple and Cook's steadfast commitment has to be admired.
What?
Cancer doesn't spread through contact (or any other reason). HIV does.
Do your research if you truly care.
Several reports reveal Apple was_asked_ (privately) to help. Slamming the door in the Government's face, then and only then did the FBI go public.
If the haters here were open minded, I'd post links to the articles. However any source that the Apple Liberals don't like is discredited. Therefore it's up to you if you care.
Google is your friend.![]()
Maybe you didn't read the thread.I believe the news should be: For first time MacRumors members are finally agreed into something.
From 1991 when I became an Apple customer I chose to trust their organization. It was a good choice. Then came the iPhone and a few years later the highly controversial "Antennagate" debacle. I'll never forget when Apple could no longer hide and remain silent, they caved into public pressure and Steve Jobs held a public Announcement, not unlike a press conference.It wasn't just reports that revealed it. Tim Cook just flat out said in the interview. He basically said it was like a slap in the face and no one from the government even contacted him before they went public.
You went on a long rant about Steve Jobs and how he can't be trusted ... and then used that as a reason to not trust a completely different human being.From 1991 when I became an Apple customer I chose to trust their organization. It was a good choice. Then came the iPhone and a few years later the highly controversial "Antennagate" debacle. I'll never forget when Apple could no longer hide and remain silent, they caved into public pressure and Steve Jobs held a public Announcement, not unlike a press conference.
He got up and with a scowl and acerbic tone told us "we were holding our iPhones wrong. Unable to detach from his own well known "Reality Distortion Field" he went on to slander other smartphones claiming they did the same thing. Except I owned two of the "other" phones (as well as my iPhone) he bashed and my experience revealed he lied. The others were excellent. No problem.
That set the tone for a skirmish between Steve Jobs loving cult like Followers and those who think for themselves and deal in reality. It was ugly and protracted. It also revealed the Supreme Unrelenting Narcissism of Steve Jobs and the Apple culture. I've never witnessed a CEO blame the customers that buy their products as Liars.
Tim Cook is not someone I trust at this juncture.
Apple... What a Company.