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altivec88 said:

apple jockey said:

Or how about, "Thank you for the TShirt and the Apple Credo". Also, "thank you for reminding me that I work for a wonderful company, with good ethics and that cares about all its employees. Thanks for all the other perks I get throughout the year. And, Apple I understand that you can't get extravagant with the gifts, considering you have tens of thousands of employees and a fiduciary responsibility to the investor/owners.
And, especially, thanks for the job!".

that would be my approach. 

although I understand what you are trying to say and in general I agree with you but this yet again shows how disconnected Tim Cook is. 

The point of giving a gift is to show appreciation and how much they value you. Giving something that cost you a few cents to make in China is more of a slap in the face than anything. It would be the equivalent of your boss stopping you in the hall and giving you a penny and words of wisdom (don't eat yellow snow) then expecting you to be oh so appreciative.  I would rather them say "sorry, we aren't giving out Christmas bonuses any more" then this read between the lines message they just doled out to their employees.

It's got to especially suck if you remember how much dough is in Ireland

Mike, couldnt help noticing that's some seriouse rock you've got there

theothergeoff said:

hmlongco said:

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What Apple needs to do is let the user setup a "self-destruct" passcode that, if entered, deletes user data for all/selected apps. (Tying this to a specific fingerprint wouldn't hurt things either.)

Being able to delete selected applications or wipe application data is key, as typically you'd like the authorities to think they're looking at an ordinary phone, while in reality you've deleted all of the app data for Message or Facebook or Twitter or Mail, protecting that information and those communications and contacts.

"0-0-0-Destruct-1"

Everyone knows that

That's tempering with evidence, at this juncture the phone is now the property of law enforcement, if you knowingly enter an incorrect passcode with the intention of destroying police evidence you will be convicted as though the original accusation was well proven thus adding what ever terms that particular crime carries in addition to doing the opposite of what the court ordered you do, remember its not a request, it's a demand that carries punishment if not followed to the letter that's why Apple can't refuse court orders, and can't mess with the information in their own servers because as soon as the order is rendered what ever is requested is thence owned by the authorities, well at least that's how it is over here

macxpress said:

What if you were just to put it in wrong 10 times and let it erase itself?

Wouldn't work, the courts aren't asking the guy to enter the code him self, they are asking for him to verbally surrender the pass code which these tree judges are strangely treating as a kind of tangible object to be surrendered at legally forcible seizure of physical evidence or physical access to such evidence, well outside the provisions of the 5th' I think, very cleaver, in their view they aren't asking the guynto say something that might incriminate him, they are asking for warrant authorised access to a locked object "box" called iPhone and to do so they require the key that unlocks it, and it is supposedly possessed as knowledge by the owner of the box and legally they find they have grounds to procure the key from said owner. "CUTE" This crap probably wouldn't survive rigorous scrutiny at a higher level but who ever is representing this guy could just buckle and tell the guy to surrender the code setting great president. It's a cleaver work around but all the guy has to say is that he can't seem to remember the combo, that woul be equivalent to loosing a key to a safe and no one can prove otherwise

Apple probably spent this much paying their own lawyers who handled this for them, this crap shouldn't have gone to court waste of taxpayers money, but more worse waste of Apple's time, some one from Apple should have gone "ooh sorry about that how much do we owe you, oh that's it ? , hmm ok, here's 4M for you're trouble kids bye you're selves something nice, and we promise to rectify this ASAP, ok" end of story