brakken

Hahahaha! Maybe Goog can remove all the viruses, backdoors, malware and adware while they're re-writing their shite. All that advertising profit will be really handy now - maybe start on a completely new architecture. Maybe based on UNIX and BSD and Mach. And maybe use some open source standards. And how about standardised encryption? Hmmm.... I wonder...

I find it interestig how most comments take the position of either/or, polarising positions on this concept of privacy and the use of personal information.

Apple does not sell personal profiles to third parties, and makes the most of available technology to ensure we cannot be tracked. The fact that a number of 'Americans' do not trust Apple really is the epitome of flawed statistics. Been to a Cnet or Verge or Bloomberg, or Wrong Street or etc article on user privacy recently? False equvialencies and hyperbole are good indicators of fake news.

The salient point is there is no reason for Apple to mislead customers about its stance on privacy - and this is a vastly different issue from creating a database for users to enhance search results, improve inquiry responses and ensure accurate content. The two oughtn't be conflated. There is simply no profit in misleading its customers in this way, and would be a key thrreat to its reputation. I believe this is why many bloggerists do their best to portray exactly this story line: Apple's competitor's only chance is to destroy Apple's reputation and itegrity, if a consumerist company can approach such a thing.

Right from Job's return in '97, he positioned Apple as not an 'us or them' proposition, but an 'us with them'. Apple's success has certainly embittered Gates and Schmidt, but that hasn't resulted in them able to have their companies produce non-fail products. Apple is not in the business of monitoring and taking responsibility for other company's business models, nor even its customers' behaviour, and certainly not other countries' internal politics.

Apple only takes responsibility for itself, and the plague of invective paid for by MS and Alphagoo to tarnish Apple's reputation is neither here nor there when evaluating Apple based on its own business model: consumerism, profit, and technological progress as the vehicle for these - or is it vice-versa?

Sadly, many people are incapable of behaving like adults, resulting in their not investigating more deeply the technology they use everyday, or the various business models that deliver the services they employ. Throwing one's hands up and pledging incredulity that Facebook sold or allowed user data to be accessed by a third party is really not the issue - from the very beginning, fb sold its service as based on just this business model. The issue is how each society will choose to either support data mining to support commercial interests.

'Convenience' is the battle-cry for Alphagoo, MS and fb, and many sites which seem to support Apple, including AppleInsider, promote the use of cross-website sign-in functionality through fb or gmail. Most people want convenience, and those companies do their best to provide whaat their customers want. 

Shouldn't 'the government' protect citizens against manipulation by large companies? How could it, when the government is subject to lobbying by those very companies who control not only the data being collected, and the information about those companies, but also provide the government with that collected information? This issue of privacy strikes at much deeper layers of not just our personal choices, but the way in which our society is structured, and its very foundation.

K-12 isn’t going to be a profitable business. Apple doesn’t do unprofitable business.

jcs2305 said:

chasm said:

This is a great way to find and fix exploits before they become problems. Safari/Mac is a popular target because the platform is so much more secure than any other consumer platform, and yet a grand total of three exploits were found by dedicated teams working all year. That’s fewer than Microsoft patches every week, and don’t even get me started on Android ...

Isn't Android as safe as IOS now?

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/security/252637-android-is-as-safe-as-ios-google.html

Android is completely impenetrable, so no one even tries at pwn2own - they don't wanna feel embarrassed at failure ;(

hexclock said:

minisu1980 said:

Wait I got this. In the past Android prevented few installs of PHA and now this last year they prevented 10 million installs. That is very high rate of growth, if you extrapolate that rate of growth out over a forever timeline then Android will eventually be blocking an infinite amount of PHA, so essentially they have already won this race. Look I am not dissing Apple and propping up Android with strawman arguments; Apple can’t top infinity exponential growth, that’s science.

I think you need to read up on the both the concepts of infinity AND exponential growth. 

I think you need to read up on both Monty Python AND George Carlin.