georgie01

Good article, thanks!

So how does someone get ahold of state sponsored hacking tools? Maybe I’m missing something, but it sounds like he’s saying you can just get them and repurpose them as if they’re freely available, and that doesn’t sound right.

People try to change or implement laws using ‘exceptional’ cases, and then those cases become increasingly unexceptional.

Government agencies just need to get their own act together to figure out ways to exploit these devices and encryption, rather than using laws to make companies do their work for them and make all devices less secure while criminals just switch to other encrypted platforms (making Apple or Facebook create backdoors won’t stop the creation of other services the government can’t control).

SpamSandwich said:

Yes, owning and asserting patent rights IS a legitimate business. Patents are property. Why wouldn’t you assert your rights against an infringer? This hasn’t been a theoretical business advantage or potential liability in the entire history of the patent system. It’s real.

I think EsquireCats was mainly referring to a company waiting to assert their patent. Anyone who thinks these things through can see that some companies look for technologies that might possibly infringe on a patent they have no intention of ever developing, and then bring a lawsuit against that similar technology hoping the courts will rule in their favour.

That might be legal business but it’s not legitimate because it’s very far removed from the fundamental intention of patents.

 You would think with Google's lead Apple's first job to be done  would be getting its map to global coverage and parity as soon as possible and pretty transions last, but then if they can make a lesser product seem superior I guess job well done ?  

Reducing Apple’s Look Around to just having ‘pretty transitions’ shows a lack of awareness about it.

But even if it was nothing more than ‘pretty transitions’, anyone paying attention to technology for the last 20 years should have learned that things such as attractive visuals not only lead the industry, but other companies copy Apple visuals—or were you not around when OS X received criticism for its visuals only to have Windows eventually copy the idea and it completely changing the industry?

Humans aren’t machines. We enjoy ‘beauty’, even if that beauty is just a pretty transition in a maps app.