tylersdad

StrangeDays said:

tylersdad said:

StrangeDays said:

“Internet people critical of Apple strategy! Film at 11.”

I think people are more or less baffled by this, not critical of it. Does it really cost Apple more to provide the use of buttons and controls that the Music app has? No. So why is there a price difference? Why is there effectively a premium for using the Music app? 

It's beyond bizarre. 

By that logic - does it really cost Apple/Disney/studios more to give me a digital copy of what they’re already providing to other people? I mean it’s the same distributed content file, what could it cost? Or why charge me more for a movie when it first drops, vs letting me rent it for $5? 

Oh yeah, value is relative. 

StrangeDays said:

“Internet people critical of Apple strategy! Film at 11.”

adhausdotcom said:

What's even more problematic is that it also auto-ascribes the differences in pay to sexism and racism which is possible but very improbable. Such concerns are the very reason why companies have HR managers.

When you don't have facts on your side, the default position is to view everything through the lens of racism and sexism. 

zimmie said:

elijahg said:

"Confusion" was not the issue. Apple of course would say it is because to do otherwise would be an admission that the feature was toxic and entirely contradictory to their public privacy stance. Privacy organisations and governments weren't "confused", they could foresee the potential privacy consequences. Apple knows full well the pushback was due to their public "what's happens on your phone stays on your phone" stance, the polar opposite to scanning phones for CSAM - and the potential for further encroachment on privacy.

Confusion absolutely is the issue. Today, Apple employees have the technical capability to view images you upload to iCloud. With the CSAM scanning, they would no longer have the technical capability to do so. That would be a substantial improvement to the current situation.

beowulfschmidt said:

AppleInsider said:

The EU's plan goes further in that it also looks for organized crime and terrorist activity.

I hate to be the one to say "I told you so", but I bloody well told you so.

When the capability exists, overreaching governments will exploit it.

Spotlight literally exists to index all content on the phone. That capability has existed for over a decade. Why haven't we seen any governmental attempt to force reporting if that index shows any document or message containing "bomb" and "president" or "minister", for example?



I still think they should carve iCloud photo sync off into a separate tool, and make it clear the CSAM scanning is only part of that tool. If you want no CSAM scanning on your device, just delete the ability to sync photos to iCloud. Done. Solves everybody's complaints.