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>Apple supplies smart phones to the WORLD. This has been my assumption from the start of this case too. Apple can't afford to lose China, if only for the purp
by SkyMarshal 11y ago
>Apple supplies smart phones to the WORLD.
This has been my assumption from the start of this case too. Apple can't afford to lose China, if only for the purpose of avoiding negative quarterly growth reports. Becoming known by the Chinese to be hackable by the FBI, wouldn't go over well there.
- x0x0 11y agoNot to mention the (obvious, ugly) next step: every country in the world demands the exact same privileges the fbi get. And why shouldn't they? This may not be avoidable. Even blackberry had to do this ([1], dozens more). But if anyone has strong enough market power to push governments towards privacy, it's apple. [1] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/aug/10/blackberry-saudi-arabia-ban-lifted http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/aug/10/blackberry...