tommikele

Every year/product cycle produces the "delay" stories. Wash rinse and repeat. Different day same story.

cornchip said:

Pretty badass if true. F the carriers. 

There will not be phone call and text service and the availability is extremely limited. And no, Apple will not "F" the carriers. If they did that, they would be screwed before you could power on your new phone. Plus, do you have any idea what that would do to the cost of service? Obviously not.

It would not be surprising if Apple's strategy and longer term plan includes building out their on network, but selling satellite service as an everyday affair is not on the table for quite some time.

Lots of gloating about how this isn't a problem for Apple and how Android  manufacturers will suffer. The haha syndrome. Do you only care because your beloved Apple is unlikely to be affected?

The real issue is more government regulation and more distortion of free markets. What's the next thing they mandate?

GeorgeBMac said:

That is the mark of a quality corporation as well as a quality individual:   Realizing that they are not perfect and everything thing they do is not inherently the right thing.

It's a humility that enables one to admit and correct mistakes -- or at least examine that they may have been mistakes.

Was this the right thing or the wrong thing to do?  The mere fact that Apple sees that as a valid question speaks highly of them.

Good job Apple!

Drinking the Kool Aid George? 

This is far from dead and you laud them forgetting the implications and actions that led to what they were going to do. It is like the convicted thief who repents after getting caught. He/she/they are still a thief until they establish otherwise through building a history of doing the right thing and one mere act to step back does not establish them as having changed. It just takes one lie to make someone dishonest, but it takes a massive number of honest acts to reestablish yourself as trustworthy after you have violated the compact of trust.

Yes, I give them credit for pulling back, but praising their "humility" and framing it as right thing versus wrong thing speaks highly of them? Come on George. They screwed up big and only temporarily pulled back because the outrage and anger far exceeded anything they expected. This does not equate to "Realizing that they are not perfect or humility or any of the intrinsic characteristics you suggest. 

With that one simple act, Apple destroyed several decades of the good will and trust they had built on the subject of privacy. It is not mended by them pulling back temporarily.

Hollow victory. 

As soon as the uproar has died down and Apple thinks it is safe they will be back. They will frame what they put forth next time as "look what we have done to protect you." when in reality it will likely just be cosmetic.