mtbnut

Ugh. This event truly needs to have "one more thing" desperately.

True. What with Samsung's S7 not being half-bad and eating up a lot of positive press, if Monday's announcement is tepid at best, then you know what the pundits and analysts will be doing to Apple's stock and public storyline. If Apple doesn't cure cancer by EOD Monday, watch out.

This is like bashing ADP Alarm Company because their system didn't do its job when the homeowner left the front door open, wrote the PIN code on a Post-It note next to the alarm control panel, and connected their landline to a phone line run by a guy in a van down by the river.

Show me the money.

Now, if only software can keep up with its hardware counterparts. 

All this does is enable buggy software to show you the beach ball that much faster. 

Can the FBI be sued for engaging in PR, instead of investigatory, tactics? They basically wasted the victims' families' (and taxpayer) time by spending it on PR stunts and misinformation. Not only that, they sabotaged the iCloud backup on purpose to ensure that there weren't any stones left to turn, not even by Apple, other than the El Capitan-sized stone the FBI wants turned. 

"...not making an effort would be unfair to the victims and their families." The loose definition of 'effort' is what's scary here. What type of effort needs to be mounted? Are there are any parameters to this 'effort,' or is the mere mention of the word 'terrorist' code for "by any means necessary"?