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Cook better be very careful with his dealings in China. China has already asked for backdoors, and I could see them asking for a similar database on the muslim uighurs. If he bends in China and Trump notices, it will not end well.

Good piece. I think Apple's threats are not so much in the technology or media realm, but political. It will be interesting to see how Apple deals with the political hoops in China, US and India. 

rotateleftbyte said:

Maybe there's a sale on tinfoil hats?

If this replaces Venmo for me, I'm game.  I'll trust Apple to handle security any day compared to what the competitors have.  While no one knows, I don't see any reason that Apple would essentially force you to use it.  Chill.

As someone who has had their Identity stolen I really don't want to wish it on anyone. I won't go into details but the start of my grief came from a payment to another person. Now 4 years later, I have got it sorted out. Yes, I use Apple Pay but allowing it to make payments to other people is IMHO not good. If I want to make a payment to another person from my bank then I'll do it in other ways.     

Should just lock your credit report with the credit bureaus. It's free to do, and only costs $5 a pop if you want to unlock them. If you do this it's very hard for anyone to get very far with identity theft. It's also a lot cheaper than life lock or whatever monitoring services there are.

about damn time. Now if kroger could come along too....

sflocal said:

anantksundaram said:

wood1208 said:

This is how China will help grow their home grown messaging apps companies by restricting and putting hurdles like they do for other outside businesses. Than, they use rest of world's openness and sell cheaper.

It is quite unbelievable to me how blatantly China throttles some of America's most successful, valuable, world-beating firms and industries from being able to compete there. Thus providing a competitive moat for their Alibabas and Tencents and Baidus etc. etc. And, inexplicably, gets away with it.

Meantime, Washington DC is focused on coal, chicken, beef, corn, and cigarettes. We are such a pathetic, whimpering, toothless, paper tiger. All hat and no cattle.

I say this time and time again... Boot China out of the WTO before ANY dialog starts with that wretched country.  China's arrogant attitude that the world needs China to survive in business is an attitude that needs to be changed immediately.  China has poisoned the world with its cheap $30 microwave ovens and large flat-screen TV's.  Enough is enough.

China blatantly violates everything that the WTO stands for, prevents foreign competition, and literally steals everyone's IP.  Hurt this country where it hurts the most.  Its economy.  If it wants access to other countries, it must first allow that same access within its own borders, unfettered by China's ridiculous government bureaucracy.

As you type your reply from your electronic device likely made in China....... I'm all for doing what you say, but unless everyone is willing to put their money where their mouth is and stop buying Chinese products then it will always be just talk. Unfortunately, Americans by and large only care about price. 

wonder how this will do in an earthquake? hope they thought about it

It still amazes me how Apple and its customers are vehemently opposed to sharing any metadata with 3rd parties in the spirit of privacy, but then willingly those same customers will put a Google/Amazon listening device in their home....No surprise that Google is stretching its lead with personal assistants; as long as Apple clings to its privacy shtick they are only going to be left further behind. 

These repeated outages make it impossible to migrate from google and dropbox. 

I don't have any problem with the data mining. People may not remember, but the 9/11 hijackers didn't really do anything "illegal" or obvious enough for a govt. wire tap aside from overstaying visas. Do we just wait for something to happen and then go berserk with Patriot Act on everyone? All this aside, any govt. agency could probably pose as some ad agency and get all the same data from twtr.

Convenient for him to obfuscate the massive tax breaks that Trump wants to give US corporations for repatriating foreign money, but then again that wouldn't fit his narrative. If I was apple I'd be more worried about the data sharing that communist China is about to force on them