Apple the greatest company in history with the greatest humanitarian intentions forced to deal with grandstanding ignorant politicians and self centered selfish advocacy groups. It’s unbelievable!
First of all: I don't buy products to satisfy the latest "humanitarian" or "social justice" goals of a company's executive management or employees. I buy products to satisfy
my needs. Secondly: Those "self centered advocacy groups" consist of the
entirety of every security and privacy individual and group on the planet.
The lack of backbone by Apple on some of these controversial situations they find themselves in is just astonishing to me.
I understand your point, but should they have allowed pride and hubris to overrule good sense?
But damn.....game that out on the front in before you put yourself out there ...
That would be wise. They should have floated this concept,
then decided whether to proceed with it or change course. Instead what they've accomplished is to have spent a bunch of time and money on development and damage control, damaged their reputation among a segment of their previously-loyal customer base, and given their competitors ammunition.
Had they floated the
idea, first, I
probably wouldn't be in the process of increasingly backing us further and further out of the Apple ecosystem. I might have
suspended certain planned purchases to await further developments, rather than cancelling them outright.
Plus the toothpaste of trust broken can't simply be put back into the tube: they insisted we didn't understand it, we were looking at it wrong, etc. etc.
This ^^^^^, precisely.
I've already backed my family partially out of the Apple ecosystem and cancelled pending purchase plans. Those things are
permanent. We will not be going back into the Apple ecosystem any deeper than we are now, and will probably continue backing further out.
The trust I had in Apple is gone
Just in case folks are not aware (although I'm sure many of you are)
https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone/
Did that by the Monday following the original announcement.
People really don't understand this system...
Yeah, ex-software developer plus over twenty-five years in IT Admin. I "didn't understand the system." Every last security and privacy individual and group on the planet "didn't understand the system." Yeah, that was the problem
A little sacrifice of “freedom” isn’t worth it for a big reward?.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Ben Franklin
If end-to-end cloud encryption is a possible goal, then this implementation defeats that purpose.
Apple has given us no indication whatsoever E2EE was going to happen and, in fact, has recently backed-off plans to implement it. Certain three-letter agencies didn't like it.