indieshack

Apple was correctly ripped about the depth of parental controls by institutional investors - just creating an informational web page about existing parental controls is insufficient in my view. As a parent I can tell you what is needed is the ability to set usage-limits with granular control - which Apple will never implement because it affects their bottom line. 

That’s spookey !

bobjohnson said:

indieshack said:

Um - what? Signal will have been (or will be in the future) the recipient of a midnight knock at the door by someone holding a court order to provide them access to the encryption. Personally I couldn’t care less since I don’t do anything interesting (or dodgy) in my spare time, but no one should be under the illusion that this is completely impenetrable.

Barring a flaw in the protocol itself, this isn't really possible. The core concept of end-to-end encryption is that the only parties capable of reading messages are the parties sending the messages, because they generate the keypairs directly. You can't have a "master key."

I stand corrected - I read up some more after your comment 

A few comments: 1. All the Echo products (except the new Echo Spot) have been heavily discounted - at one point Home Depot was selling three dots for $30! So I'm not surprised that Echo's did well. 2. I don't understand the concept expressed by others here that the HomePod is competing with the Echo devices. I think the Echo and the HomePod are for different customers with a thin potential overlap. The HomePod appears to me to be aimed at audiophiles and Apple fans for who the price doesn't engender sticker shock. If Apple sells X number of these with it's usual sky-high margins it will reach a break even point and do quite nicely without selling anywhere near the same numbers that Echos sell. 3. If Apple was looking to provide a mass market device to insert itself into the home automation market, the HomePod clearly isn't it for a few reasons; stuff has been happening while Apple has been getting the pieces together for its version of home automation and secondly the HomePod is priced as a premium device. I wouldn't say Apple has missed the boat because there's always room in the market for quality products, and Apple is a master of the quality product, but the company's apparent development inertia means it appears to take far longer than expected to get a product out of the door - because of this slowness plus heavy competition from industry heavyweights plus price points, it will never be a leader in home automation. That doesn't mean it won't be an important player or innovator in this domain. 4. A previous commenter suggested that the Echo was known to be under development because all companies know whet their competitor is doing - not so, it came out of left base when announced by Amazon a few years back and was a genuine "disruptor" (if I recall correctly, same for the iPad).

More "secret squirrel" antics from Apple.