Today, Apple responded to Google’s discovery of a major iPhone security flaw with a bristling statement that accused its rival of creating “false impressions.” But Apple did very little to clear up those false impressions, and seems to have created some of its own, as we’ll see by taking a close read.
A good point-by-point breakdown of just how awful Apple’s statement really was. Everything about the statement exudes that Apple cares more about the perception of the iPhone’s security among customers than for the lives of the Uighurs in China, who are being systematically eradicated from the country in a state-organised technocratic genocide of which these iPhone hacks were a part.
On top of that, Apple is attacking Google, while making no mention of the actual perpetrator of this attack – the Chinese government. Apple is so dependent on China that it can’t condemn anything this totalitarian regime does, including hacking its own primary product as part of a genocide.
Only a company as so far up its own ass as Apple could write a statement like this.
Supply Chained. In the Prison Farm (Walled Garden).
Cook is trying to manage perception like he did the supply chain while the products run on the fumes left from Jobs departure.
Jobs was a disruptor, but that is inimical to supply chains. Cook is ultraconservative, not unlike Gates bombing Netscape (Jarring experience – to the point of anti-Trust).
There is collected good will and such but it has a “burn rate” and although Apple is past its apogee, it is not QUITE yet in the parabolic ballistic descent into crash and burn.
It can recover – easily – and it would even be a conservative move. But it would take someone else.
Meh, I remember the steve jobs years, and he was master of BS with a messiah complex, His supporters absolutely loved him, even to the point of abandoning critical thinking, but for those outside the reality distortion field it was obnoxious. Plenty of people liked apple tech, but…I want a practical computer, not a religion. Jobs relied too much on the later. I really think he and trump were woven from the same fabric.
I wouldn’t mind a change at the helm to spur product development, but IMHO going back to jobs would be disappointing.
Addendum: wiht Apple outsourcing political correctness to the SPLC, I find it Ironic that they will swallow aNzi level human rights violations by the Chinese, except, Cook. Over a billion people makes you blind to evil.
Google attacking Apple, and vice-versa.
That’s rich, coming from both sides. They’re both beholden to Beijing. Is there a way all three of them can lose?
Google didn’t really attack Apple, rather they put up this blog post which is a standard security write up.
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/a-very-deep-dive-into-ios-exploit.html
At least one news website took one look at the graph and claimed “2 year un-patched vulnerability exploited without actually being able to read or understand technology terminology. So terrible reporting from news sources which no longer seem to even do basic grammar checks, plus Apple deciding to lash out instead of sucking it up like every other company knows to do when this stuff happens.
I’m not sure what to think, a disillusionment over corporate ethics or a disbelief of the general public’s naivety!
I believe the tsakes arent high enough. If Apple customers by and large are NOT focused on security oand privacy on Apple products, then they could shuck and jive to their heart’s content. If Apple customers are focused on featires, then that’s where their attention will shift.
What I find funny is how you condemn Apple and not also Google who is just as corrupt as anyone (including Facebook).
Whataboutism aside, if you think I don’t condemn Google and Facebook, you haven’t been here long enough.
Huh? Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon all get plenty of criticism here. Thom owns an iPhone so to try to make him out as some kind of Apple hater would not make sense. Saying that… No one is as bad as Facebook (including Google).
Thom isn’t prejudice. He hates all tech companies equally.