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Sixth para: "earlu ". Have you guys turned off spell checking, that's every story I've read so far today?

danox said:

I hope not but this off to the side tech which is non glamorous back of house tech at that will draw the ire of the EU or the Justice Dept and it would be unfair to Apples future competitors if pursued.  

Not to mention that it would be unfair to those who would like to use our networks and devices but don't want to bother us by telling us they're there. 

Sounds like a nice piece of hardware, though the question with folding displays is how they perform after a year or two's use. However, I didn't get a clear idea of why I might want to fold my phone.
My dishwasher is WiFi-enabled, which is jolly clever, but it prompts the same question of why you would want a WiFi-enabled dishwasher.

At least we won't have to worry about the weight. To complement its "extremely high-tech display", and following on from recent Pros' use of titanium frames, the iFold is to use a new light-weight alloy of Unobtainium that actually has negative mass. You heard it here first.

lowededwookie said:

Sweet. No all we need to do is hack every politician’s iCloud account and distribute all their photos and notes and search history so that they then realise they were not intelligent and the UK gets security again.

To be clear, the data on iCloud is still encrypted, it’s just that Apple now has the keys. So it would need two major breaches of Apple’s security (get to the data, get to the keys) to read it. The issue is that now the authorities (through a case by case legal process) can force Apple to offer up access to the (plain text) data. 

kkqd1337 said:

Disappointed in Apple here. They should have stood up to the UK Government and just said no. 

Apple obeys the law in countries where it trades. That’s got to be the correct stance. Trouble is, this particular law is difficult because it does, in some cases, actually support doing good.