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I’m kind of surprised that no one here gets that much can be gained by re-examining from the ground up every facet of automotive design.

When young engineers enter the workforce at the big automotive companies they are shown the way it has been done for years.  And to second guess long held design rules and assumptions would be to pass judgement on the very senior engineers who hired them.  It takes time and patient to introduce changes in these large organizations that prefer stability to rapid change.  Apple will have none of those constraints.  They’ve never designed a car before.  What some see as a disadvantage is actually an advantage.

macplusplus said:

gatorguy said:

StrangeDays said:

gatorguy said:

racerhomie3 said:

I am sure this key would ‘leak’ on the black market just like how CIA’s or NSA’s malware is being to damage American cities.

In fact I'm wondering if this is already in play in a couple of other countries.  It would explain how Apple iMessage has escaped the same fate of the other encrypted messaging services who have refused to cow-tow in China and Russia. 

Are you honestly suggesting Apple has given Russia access to everyone's encrypted iMessages, and not told anyone? Is that honestly what you're suggesting?

Man, who pays you to drop such copious amounts of FUD pellets on everything Apple? What do you get out suggesting such nonsense?

If Apple still runs the Russia service once the changeover is in full effect then no I don't think Apple would turn over any messages that were not already existing in the users Cloud account.

BUT If they do as they did in China and turn it all over to a Russian agency, no longer even branded as an Apple service, then of course it would not be Apple making the choices. Clean hands 

Yours is a very bold claim: iCloud run and monitored by Chinese agency ! Any link for that? All the Chinese wanted from Apple was keeping the servers in mainland China...

Read it and weep.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/7/18/17587304/apple-icloud-china-user-data-state-run-telecom-privacy-security

Apple has always been at risk by basing so much of their manufacturing in China.  There was a time when the conventional wisdom had it that China would grow out of its corruption, thievery and autocratic ways.  But membership in the WTO and adoption of market economics haven’t had the effect people thought they would.

And so, Apple is in a tough spot that I have no doubt Tim Cook wishes the company were not in.  So far he has maintained a balance of good relations with political entities in both countries.  But forces he has no control over may upset that balance, and Apple could become an unfortunate casualty.

Apple will have to diversify its manufacturing base more and more.  This is an expensive proposition as it is less efficient.  But putting so many eggs in the Chinese basket could have catastrophic consequences for its business if the trade war goes south.

I don’t like trade wars.  They are generally lose/lose situations.  But something has to change with how China operates with the rest of the world.  If Tim has any influence with the Chinese leadership, now would be a good time to start bending ears.

It does seem rather insipid on Apple’s part.  They will certainly lose.

But I’m guessing they want it on record that they made the attempt to protect their logo so that the next time someone comes up with something closer to Apple’s logo they can say that they defended it.  If you don’t make the attempt to defend your IP many courts will conclude that, if it wasn’t worth protecting then, it is not worth protecting now, and the court will summarily dismiss Apple’s complaint.

mac_128 said:

AI_lias said:

Yesterday I read a rumor of the SE being revived, with all screen and 4.7 size. Maybe that's the same rumor.  I think it would sell, to have 8 screen size in SE frame

I love the SE form factor.  But the prospect of an edge to edge screen doesn’t thrill me.  I get too many false touches at the edges on my current phone as it is.  Super irritating!  Apple’s software isn’t sophisticated enough to identify most false positives.