knowitall

Relation repair.
 "we're building a platform for us, from a risk management perspective," 
Really? Such utter marketing fluff, building a platform, no shit, they build absolutely nothing. Its only aimed at ripping off. 
Ethically zero. 

Very good of mr Cook.
Its important to keep rules fair for non multinationals, paying full whack taxes all the time.
Its also important to consider lawfulness of tax because of ... euh ... tax.
For each taxation a reason must exist and this taxed money must be fully accounted for and spend for a specific public cause (which is not for example higher wages for public servants).
If not its a human rights violation.
Also, the notion that everyone should pay is wrong, everyone shouldn't pay, and if tax is absolutely necessary (and proven to be so, because government is almost always corrupt in this sense) it should be as low as possible and reevaluated every year or even shorter.
Also, multinationals should have far less rights to close shop in one location and reopen on another, at that time favorable location, firing all people and ruining the company at the first location. All because some asshole manager wants to increase shareholders value and increase ROI on a perfectly viable business like what happend to Tasking B.V. in the Netherlands for multinational Altium B.V. executed by Mike Greesbach.

anantksundaram said:

Seven tech companies, the “FAANTAMs” as I call them — Facebook, Apple, Alphabet, Netflix, Tesla, Amazon, and Microsoft — now account for close to one-fifth of the market cap, one-seventh of the profits, and 40% of the cash of the US stock market. Stunning.

Can you imagine the valuations if China was not a closed/protected market to most of them?

We will see with Tesla.

Ah, so its an success, now they claim it.
Otherwise Apple would get all the ‘credits’.
Absolute assholes, Apple should get rid of them as soon as possible and start Apple bank (you know for the common good, a green bank, helping others, having morals (that should be a first for a bank)).
Apple bank would be a resounding succes, with honest people at the helm.

This seems not specific for iPhones.
They simply wont be able to extract encrypted data from iPhones.
Other phones are wide open of course.
I think its stupid and unethical of ‘law enforcement’ to require Apple unlock specific iPhone data.
Its stupid because encryption is designed to be ‘unbreakable’, like asking water to go uphill.    
Its unethical because a lot of people rely on absolute data safety because of human rights violating regime's (like China, Iran or the USA) and dare consequences of unlocking like death, maiming, prison, severe repercussions, etc.