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Beats said:

People are seeing through the bull****. 

roake said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

entropys said:

It doesn’t help when people are confused about what this does. But it also doesn’t help when people ignore what it does because “Think of the children!!” Like this article.

Bottom line, is it has created a mechanism to identify people that have a list of specified imagery on their phone.  Kiddie fiddlers to start, who could argue against that? Next up imagery that a less liberal government doesn’t like.  And I mean liberal in the traditional sense, not the type the big brother acolytes in America who have usurped that term have claimed.

and now Apple can’t back down despite the considerable blow back.  Because “Won’t someone think of the children!!” McGuffin to implement it has Apple trapped like a fly in amber.

but it can’t claim it protects your privacy anymore.

Considering that unless you have this material on your iPhone, the company still doesn't have any information at all about your photos, it absolutely can.

What this article does is ignore hypothetical situations that are being used by folks. What this article also does is discuss how the system doesn't do anything like what the German journalists (who use Gmail accounts, by the way) claim it does. What it does not do is validate your opinion on the matter, and that's fine -- but not a shortcoming in any way.

Apple has already bent their policies to China’s will, and will continue to do so.  What IS hypothetical is to say “I’ll bet this or that happens.”  What is NOT hypothetical is to note that China and other countries have already bent Apple to their own will on Apple Maps, privacy issues (servers have to be physically in China, where government can physically access them), etc.  Is it more hypothetical to say that China WILL demand abuse of these new capabilities?  Or more hypothetical to say that they won’t?  This will open a door that can’t easily be closed.  No amount of gaslighting is going to make intelligent people believe otherwise.

Apple is not going to abandon sales in China in order to hold true to some policy-based principles.  They have already proven that.

ArchStanton said:

Apple's approach is exactly the opposite: exerting its control over the App Store to benefit its own bottom line," the spokesperson said."

I almost thought to myself "hmmm, could Facebook actually be getting the message?'. Then this above sentence proves this is window dressing, looking to canalize on the Apple CSAM story in the news by speaking of how much better they are than Apple, and how Gee Maybe One Day We Won't Assault Your Privacy.

Don't bet on it...

yojimbo007 said:

Joint venture between Apple And LG ...yet there is no Apple logo or Any Hint of Apple design theme there... Big mistake by Apple to approach monitors in such a secondary way.. reducing Apple logo and Design theme visibility at the high end.

sog35 said:

2 years on the job
$100+ million in compensation

pretty much nothing to show

was this hire just based on diversity?

what contributions has she really done?

planting trees in the stores is the only thing I notice

spliff monkey said:

Wow. A video that forces you to reboot your phone if you play it? Sounds dangerous. Apple doom! /s


... Or a mild inconvenience at best. I can tell you about several other glitches that have plagued my
iphones over the years, including my current 6s, that are as inconvenient, if not more so than this. They aren't "perfect" and yes you're going to have to reboot them because ... glitches. 

Next time details about the video video might be helpful so we can inform our less tech savy friends what to look out for. But for the record you didn't even include the detail from the verge article that mentions you have to receive it as a link rather than as an actual video file attachement. 

roake said:

And here we go, Apple supporting Tim Cook's rainbow-colored view of the world again.

I have an idea... Why doesn't Apple get out of politics and try focusing on closing security holes?