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apple jockey said:

Apple must tread carefully with this request from Turkey. While Apple instinct is to deny requests for such technical help if it threatens customer privacy or privacy policy in general, Turkey and other repressive and intolerant governments are looking for reasons and excuses to excise threats to their totalitarian tendencies. This would be the perfect feign for bringing that hammer down on Apple.

I believe that in this case and others similar I am aware of, Apple should provide expertise to authorities. This could take place within Apple approved guidelines and would be easier to safely and securely roll out with an Apple designated 'go team' that would assist on a case by case basis, guided by Apple policy. The team would come in, privately solve the problem and move on.

This need is going to continue to increase, Apple has a responsibility to provide help at times and at others, to hold firm.

If Apple does not develop this flexibility, governments will find ways to shut them down, with out thinking twice, al la Chinese limitation of several tech companies.

Unless I've completely missed your intent, I'm thinking we've had this argument before. Apple has stated they give ALL the information they can from non encrypted iCloud backups to the authorities on receipt of a court order with no other access beyond that. Further, they have stated that Apple has no backdoor into iOS and that they have no intention of breaking their encryption security under any condition because "the bad guys" will eventually figure it out. They would have to break their own software. 
Given that security - encryption...is a binary argument ie. on/off encryption with no middle ground whatsoever, how would any team fit into that scenario. How do you have one team adding security whilst another works for law enforcement to break it? It just doesn't make any sense. What about all the other encryption solutions out there? and freely available to roll your own. 
It's math. What it isn't includes having a social conscience or a bleeting heart, a middle ground maybe option, a political leaning or indeed, an ability to adapt to geographical whims or business nous. 
Apple has stated their commitment to end-to-end encryption for users security. From that moment, any breach of that trust would bring down Apple to a smoking hulk almost overnight. 
Its quite shocking to be going over this so soon. 
The die is cast. 

sog35 said:

andrewj5790 said:

sog35 said:

Wow.

First 5 out of 5 I've seen on this site.

I agree 100%

This thing has literally changed my life and made my life more enjoyable.

A key is to pair this with an Apple watch so you can easily skip tracks and adjust volume.


Only problem i have is the double tap to envoke Siri does not work. I don't know why. Tried it dozens of times.

You have to tap pretty hard. It's more like a finger hit

I've tried it. VERY HARD. Still does not work.

probably will return it for a new pair when these are in stock in a few months.

My method - tap and make contact with both the end of your finger and fingernail, works every time. You can hear the fingernail tap through the body of the AirPod. 
They also sound way better than EarPods. No treble sibilance. 
To answer another question...I left my phone in the kitchen this morning when I went to the workshop - that's four walls and around 20m away and they worked fine. I was quite disorientated when I got a call and automatically reached into my pocket only to panic a bit that I had dropped it somewhere. That's a pretty seamless experience. 
The case charges at a fairly leisurely rate. 

mdriftmeyer said:

9secondkox2 said:

And Steve Jobs attended Obamas meeting with all the tech companies. No explanation necessary. 

Steve Jobs was a life long Democrat who gladly helped the Obama election campaign. He was also a long time friend of the Clintons. I lost a lot of respect for Tim Cook this week; but probably more now with his deplorable writing skills.

I'll let TC do the rebuttal. 
"I've never found being on the sideline a successful place to be. The way that you influence these issues is to be in the arena. So whether it's in this country, or the European Union, or in China or South America, we engage. And we engage when we agree and we engage when we disagree. I think it's very important to do that because you don't change things by just yelling. You change things by showing everyone why your way is the best. In many ways, it's a debate of ideas."
Deplorable to think otherwise. 

sog35 said:

frac said:

sog35 said:

Apple needs to send more $$$ to 'research' companies like Kantar.  Send them a couple million.

Do the same with IDC. Nice little $5 million check.

Apple is waging a PROPAGANDA WAR versus Wall Street, the tech media, and its rivals. Spending $10 million a year on marketing expense to these research companies is well worth it.

Spending $20 million a year is a drop in the bucket compared to the cost to shareholders from negative bullshit 'research'.  Gogoggle, Samdung, and Microshit all plays this same game. Apple should join and pay out even more $$$

Have you learned nothing...gained no insight or understood anything in Apple's long relationship with it's users?
Apple is a class act, flawed...but still above that sort of crap. Answer me this...How can you be sure of anything meaningful about the desirability or quality of your product if paying  yes men is your feedback source?

I'm not paying these companies to lie and be yes men.

I'm paying these companies to be fair and honest.

Look at the ridiculous news about the removal of the head phone jack. I don't need the media to lie about. I need them to tell the truth only.

Paying the media to tell the truth isn't in any way morally wrong.

Why should Apple submit to blackmail - since that's what it essentially is....in order to get fair treatment? 
"Umm... sorry TC, the price of the truth just got more expensive"
You make no sense. 

netrox said:

The problem is really Apple. Apple has made recharging technology way too complex to the point that you literally need to have ram and CPU inside cable to do proper charging and also to do data transfer. 

Lightning cables need to go away. It had caused too much grief. 

Its no wonder we are going with wireless recharging which should be safer. 

Bizarre logic. 
Cheap, unsophisticated solutions are even cheaper to clone with dangerous reject quality components. 
But you go ahead and....and be a victim of your own folly.