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muppetry said:

I haven't seen much informed commentary on whether an iPhone loaded with a weakened operating system would open the possibilty of a true backdoor in the wild if it got into the wrong hands.

Uh, you don't need to see it. As Apple says quite clearly, if it exists, it will happen. Period.

AppleInsider said:

"We simply want the chance, with a search warrant, to try to guess the terrorist's passcode without the phone essentially self-destructing and without it taking a decade to guess correctly. That's it. We don't want to break anyone's encryption or set a master key loose on the land," Comey added.

Just the fact that he says this proves he's not listening, or doesn't care. The truth is that what he asks for is not possible. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

All Apple has to do here is fight it to the end. If they somehow "lose", which I don't see being possible, then when they create their "special" version of iOS and load it onto the phone..they make sure to forget the part where the phone won't delete itself after x failed attempts. Then once the brute force attack begins, the phone immediately deletes itself and shuts down forever. The end. What are they going to do prosecute Apple? "Oops. We thought it would work. Guess it didn't. Sorry."
Think again before demanding shit from a technology company.

thewhitefalcon said:

levi said:

I am highly anticipating the iPhone 7

3D Touch will be implemented in much more useful ways. Sure, TouchID was in the 5S, but the 6 is where it became much more interesting.

Touch ID became more interesting through software, the same which ran on the 5S and 6 at the time. It wasn't until the 6s where new hardware, and new Touch ID 2, made it significantly faster.

Likewise, unless the iPhone 7 has "3D Touch 2", any improvements to 3D Touch will be through software, and apply equally to this year and last year's devices.

AppleInsider said:

 highly anticipated "iPhone 7" launch.

At the risk of sounding like a troll....what is so "highly anticipated" about the iPhone 7? We've reached a point with the iPhone 6s where the phone is so good, that improving upon it in a meaningful way is...difficult. I've upgrade my phone every single year without fail, from iPhone 1 through iPhone 6s. I'm always taking delivery on launch weekend.

But, can any iPhone 6s owner really say that they are "highly anticipating" the iPhone 7?