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foad said:

roake said:

While there are signs that Apples rapid growth is slowing down, there are no signs at all the Apple is in any kind of financial trouble.  And even if there is a slowdown in growth, It doesn't mean that they won't resume tremendous growth when they release another new project.

Or it could simply mean that they are restructuring the way they hire. There isn't a hiring freeze in place so it's not like they aren't recruiting at all. They have been on a tear hiring folks and at a certain point you need to step back a bit. 

Exactly.  Kinda like the Apple Store going down before a refresh.

Apple is not winding down recruiting efforts, and this headline/post is just retarded.

Actual sales numbers, or it didn't happen.

Considering the FBI's original mission was to stop bootleggers when they crossed state lines, shouldn't they just be eliminated and states' police allowed to share justification with interstate crime?

The FBI has a terrible history, and their public reputation was crafted thru Hollywood productions (of which they've helped encourage or sponsor).  They suck at investigation, abysmal on active crime scenes, and almost completely redundant.  People complain about military spending, but we already enough layers of domestic law enforcement, let's save everyone a couple nickels and a lot hassle for these federal cops without a purpose.

slurpy said:

apple ][ said:

Do you mean the iPhone terrorist encryption case?

That is of course Obama's doing 100%. It is Obama and his thugs in the DOJ that are coming after Apple.

And your BFF Donald Trump is 1000% more on the FBI's side than Obama is, who has said nuanced things about the topic and has stated that it is complex. Trump on the other hand called for the boycott of Apple about the issue, and demands that Apple "gives them the code", whatever the fuck that means. Yet, you want him as President. 

But of course, that doesn't make Trump a thug, right? I sometimes wonder how people like you get up in the morning, so twisted with hypocrisy and contradictions. 

Why can't somebody just say something bad about Obama, without a Trump obsessed person trying to make it all about Trump?

rogue cheddar said:

I have a serious question I hope someone can answer. Say the government and FBI fight all the way to SCOTUS and win. They get to tell Apple a Blackfoot must be created. Apple still refuses. Then what? Are they just fined every day? Would someone go to jail? Could the government shut down Apple? On the flip side, say SCOTUS upholds the FBI and Apple DOES make a backdoor-- and then proceeds to make a different, even tougher encryption which their backdoor can't access. Then what?

Just like in Wargames, it seems the only solutions is not to play. Sadly, the government does not like to appear weak

The FBI is threatening to knock down their doors in Cupertino and seize the iOS source code and secure keys. 

If that happened, and supposing Apple really wanted to stick to their guns, they could just copy their source code and keys to an encrypted device(s), and FBI would be back to square one.