postman

I do not believe these very early rumors about whether the next iPhone will or will not be "water
proof". How could they possibly know?

The iPhone sound can always be improved. If Apple goes with wireless earphones, as has been previously rumored, then eliminating the current jack to save space is logical. And if the camera is improved too, and the phone has a faster chip, and is thinner, and has an iOS upgrade that offers better battery life - that is all good.

In other words, improved sound, sight, weight, and battery life would all be a welcome major upgrade. 

Lynch, the DoJ, the White House and the other members of the administration may be politically inclined to close ranks and support what FBI director Comey - and DoJ - is trying to do. As it pertains to their Washington intra gov't politics.

But being political animals, they will have to back off once the public learns the truth and weighs-in. Because the difference, just within the past week - in the more pointed questions the TV reporters are asking in their interviews with various "experts", and what is being written by knowledgeable intelligence agency experts (like Michael Hayden) and OpEd pieces in the mainstream Press like the New York Times - are all on Apple's side. As the true facts about James Comey's contrived agenda come out.

When all the dust has settled, public opinion about personal privacy will win the day. Because public opinion trumps Washington crony politics.

As the evidence and timeline became public, it is clear that the FBI are incompetent, and liars.

As Tim Cook pointed out, it is ironic that the very government that is supposed to protect our privacy and personal liberty are working so hard to take them away. 

FACT: "The FBI this month asked Congress for $69 million to "counter the threat of "Going Dark"– being unable to access data because of encryption and other techniques.The bureau currently devotes 39 people and $31 million to this effort."" – SOURCE: WSJ. Remember, FBI Director James Comey is essentially a bureaucrat. When all the dust has settled, it will be revealed this grandstanding act was because Comey is slated this month to more than double his budget but needed a good reason to give to Congress. This public embarrassment is to get more money for his budget out of Congress.

"They are not asking for some general thing, they are asking for a particular case," Gates said. "It is no different than [the question of] should anybody ever have been able to tell the phone company to get information, should anybody be able to get at bank records. Let's say the bank had tied a ribbon round the disk drive and said 'don't make me cut this ribbon because you'll make me cut it many times'."

FACTS: (Source: WSJ Feb 19, 2016)
"In the last six months of 2015, Verizon and AT&T combined received more than a quarter-million requests from law-enforcement agencies in civil and criminal matters and as many as 998 requests in the first six months of 2015 to access customer accounts for national-security reasons, according to transparency reports published by the companies."

"By comparison, Apple says it received 971 law-enforcement requests for account data stored in users' iCloud or iTunes accounts. In the first half of 2015, the latest data available, and provided at least some data to 81% of them. As many as 499 additional requests were related to national security, according to Apple's transparency report. With much communications traffic shifting from the phone networks to data packets on the internet, monitoring is becoming more complicated"

In other words, at this rate if the FBI and all the other law-enforcement agencies and prosecutors out there get their way, Apple will be working for the gov't full time 24/7. THAT is a slippery slope.