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Apple is becoming pathetic in their deafness to criticism. This not a feature. It’s an invasion of privacy and the the ´back door’ they said they wouldn’t build. I don’t buy their devices to become a part of the surveillance state. Get out the h*** out of my data, Apple. Serve the customer. iCloud is supposed to helpfully sync across devices and helpfully provide off device storage. Now, suddenly they are proud to announce that it’s become a tool for surveillance. 

Apple completely screwed this up. It’s conceptually wrong from the start. I can’t believe this even got initiated as a project. It’s idiotic to try and excuse looking into private data by justifying the method of the technology. Apples entire stance before now is something I have supported. In this ridiculous step they’ve utterly failed. And should cancel this initiative. 

In a single moment Apple is destroying all of its credibility. It’s amazing to see the complete self destruction of a brand image they worked so hard to achieve. I’m awestruck by their utter ignorance of what they are doing. How rapidly the fall is happening. First, the company and CEO appear to be fully committed to user privacy, to the idea that a corporation or government doesn’t get to just march into our homes or property without a reasonable cause… to a company and CEO that in their actions deny any concept of private ownership of a device or a set of data or basically whatever they decide they or a government might want to poke around in. Not to mention the inevitable hacking that happens with all technology over time. 

If it’s basically just a generic stylus… I don’t see the point. It sounds like a horrible product. I also have to say thank god I have a gen 2! I use the Magnetic Charging all the time-so useful and efficient. And to reduce the artistic flexibility is also just bizarre. This seems like a totally misguided cheapening of a product. if I want a cheap stylus they’re available everywhere already. 

Dictating features and product design (that is not safety related) by a governmental body is ridiculous. Governments generally suck at questions of technology. And last time I checked Apple products are immensely popular as the company has chosen to design them. The ‘walled garden’ is something that I as a consumer has chosen to support. I definitely don’t want the EU or China or the US government for that matter trying to legislate product design and features. It’s a massive overstep. It’s just like the ‘backdoor’ that governments have been trying to manipulate into happening. This proposed law will take away my freedom to choose the product I want. 

How Apple didn’t see these privacy and security threats to their users and to society is mind boggling. 

That Apple fails to see the conceptual problem with checking the contents of private accounts is mind boggling. And the idea, as other commenters mention, that users must rely on their current and future refusal to use this technology for other purposes is the most ridiculous thing ever. I don’t know if they are just too impressed with themselves, or simply stupid when it comes to anything beyond technological cleverness. 

Yes, I’m very excited to see the ongoing development of the evergreen concept of the always impressive gray. Spanning the incredible range from an elegant silver to the richness of moondust and well beyond. It is with fascination that I await the real and final pseudo-color selections. I’m profoundly grateful that there is consistent resistance to what one may consider childish colors. We can be deeply thankful that the vision we may think of as grayscale rules the day. It calms the mind. 

Probably this is common knowledge, but why has Apple made so much Not user upgradable? Is it to sell more new machines ? Is it to eliminate technical problems when users upgrade? Conceptually, I want more control of the thing I pay thousands for. 

I wanted one. I was hopeful they would do what they said, but instead they shoved out a ridiculous unchanged product. It was a major letdown.