Apple: Ppl who want privacy are "screeching...minority"

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

There are 2 kinds of people in this world: Those who do not use Apple products and filthy, godless communists.

https://twitter.com/kaepora/status/1423738825369604106

[thundley4]

I refuse to use any Apple products.  I have boycotted them since shortly after trying iTunes in 2002. They took complete control of all media files and "protected" them from being copied.

I had went to the trouble of digitizing a bunch of CDs so I could burn my own compilation discs. I decided to try iTunes. Nope. Big mistake . I have never used another Apple product since then. At least not knowingly.

[DLR Pyro]

There are 2 kinds of people in this world: Those who do not use Apple products and filthy, godless communists.

https://twitter.com/kaepora/status/1423738825369604106

glad to say I fall into the first category.

I recall a few years back crApple refused to assist Law Enforcement in unlocking devices of suspected terrorists.  Now that their beijing biden is in the Woke House they are all for invading the privacy of iphone users...

After months of claiming that Apple's privacy protections had stalled its investigation, the Justice Department said Monday that it had accessed a terrorism suspect's iPhone with no help from the company.

In a news conference Monday, Attorney General William Barr said Mohammed Alshamrani, the Saudi air force officer accused of killing three classmates and wounding eight other people at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, on Dec. 6, was affiliated with al Qaeda. During the attack, Alshamrani shot one of his two iPhones, which the FBI wanted to examine for possible ties to terrorist groups, authorities said. Apple has consistently held a position that it won't re-engineer its phones for law enforcement.

"Apple's decision has dangerous consequences for public safety and national security and is, in my judgment, unacceptable," Barr said Monday.

The announcement echoed previous standoffs between Apple and the Justice Department that have all ended the same way — with law enforcement finding its own way in to unlock a phone despite claiming it needed Apple's help.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/fbi-cracked-another-iphone-it-s-still-not-happy-apple-n1209506

[DefiantSix]

Apple products have been dead to me ever since early in my career in the 1990s. With their closed software architecture, there was no one who could develop CAD software to run on Apple machines, and they refused to make any attempt to service the engineering profession's needs themselves. Apparently my/our business wasn't good enough for their expensive toys, so I've been only too happy to reciprocate the sentiment.