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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. :D
 
While I'm not "fashionably offended", I do find his comment in poor taste.

But I also don't care for him as a corporate executive, don't approve of some of his political and social stances and especially don't feel is the right choice for CEO of Apple, so perhaps my perception is skewed.
 
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.
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.
 
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!!

Get back to me when the doctor tells you that you have 4-8 months to live.

Thanks for the well wishes.
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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.

Thanks for your thoughts.
 
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. :D
Provide links or you're just BS'ng.
 
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.

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?
 
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. :D

Provide links or you're just BS'ng.

Agreed. If you make the assertion, burden of proof is on you to back up what you say. So by all means, posts those links, then we'll take your post into consideration.

Until then, all filler, no killer.

BL.
 
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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?
This entire comment just proved my point.
 
Tell them what you are going to tell them, tell them, then tell them what you just told them Tim
 
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.

Yes, on some level, they're to be admired. It's not easy to stand up like this in the court of public opinion. On the other hand, what was Apple supposed to do here? When the government brought this public, were they then simply just supposed to cave and then face the backlash about how Apple isn't protecting our privacy and that it's collaborating with the government to build a back door into the iPhone? That would've been a far worse road to go down.
 
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What?

Cancer doesn't spread through contact (or any other reason). HIV does.

I don't know how "Maybe you are too sensitive to the mention of AIDS/HIV" can be read as anything but homophobic when you include it in a fake letter to a publicly gay man. If Tim is sensitive to anything, it's probably cancer considering how close he was to Steve Jobs. I'm sorry to hear about your condition, but I don't think his comment is intended to offend anyone. Even if you think HIV/AIDS makes a better analogy, you should have presented it differently.
 
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. :D

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.
 
That Tim is good.

I guess the FBI also thinks one step at a time otherwise they would "see" the future themselves.

Then again... the FBI did stuff this to begin with..... This is why u call it "encryption"

The only thing the government has to blame is themselves on this one, regardless how light you try and 'sugar-coat' the situation.
 
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.
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.
 
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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.
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.
 
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