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I could easily see a situation where you can enable both Palm ID and Face ID for additive security.  Also, there are far more opportunities with something like Palm ID to add a “poison pill”, such as lifting a certain finger up (or failing to lift it up) during authentication that would lock the phone, or perhaps even wipe it.

gatorguy said:

The much longer run time, 4-5 hours longer than last year's models, would imply that reverse charging might have originally been planned afterall as this morning's article suggested. 

Looking forward to the ifixit teardown.  Would be nice to see that they have included the coils and could turn it on later with a firmware update.

I’ve said it before...

I have no trust at all for Facebook and Google.  I don’t think any company that views the customer as the product will ever have sufficient motivation to keep my personal data private.

SpamSandwich said:

Shouldn’t they instead provide a legal demand from the app developer for only those non-US registrants/users of the app? Apple should tell them to take a hike.

As an app developer, you receive no identifying information about people that download your app.  Unless the developer requires some sort of registration (and how could they guarantee real info was listed?), what could they give in response to a government request?

That being said, Apple needs to tell them to go screw themselves.  As was stated, people can download the app out of curiosity, misunderstanding, or any other reason, and it doesn’t mean they are exporting prohibited scopes.  There is no good reason those people need to be suspects in an investigation just because the government is lazy.  The government needs to get off their asses and actually investigate something instead of hoping that they can get Apple or Google just to give them a list.

I have no trust at all for Facebook and Google.  I don’t think any company that views the customer as the product will ever have sufficient motivation to keep my personal data private.