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Tim Cook is a crook and a moral coward. Single signature signing authorities for software will always be inevitably used for evil, and here it directly has been
by Mindwipe 7y ago
Tim Cook is a crook and a moral coward. Single signature signing authorities for software will always be inevitably used for evil, and here it directly has been.
Apple does have a choice here. An easy one. It could remove the requirement that all iOS apps have to be signed to run on Apple devices. Simple. And at that point the Chinese government have no further way to blackmail them.
But Apple has decided it's future ability to behave in an anti-competitive fashion is more important than democracy for the people of Hong Kong.
- SiliconAlley 7y agoHonestly, as a person who prizes Apple’s products and happily depends on them for work, personal life, etc. I think Tim Cook needs to either open up sideloading or be promptly fired and replaced by somebody who will. None of this sits well with me. It is a situation we do not need to be in. I agree that he is a moral coward, and in far too important and dangerous a position to be so.
- throwaway-571 7y agoThe first duty of public companies is to the shareholders. Users fuzzy feelings figure very little in the incentive structure. Sideloading is probably too damaging to the short term profits of the company to be on the table. Or it might not even be a question worth considering for the board .
- SiliconAlley 7y agoI agree. I hope this will be enough of a disaster in terms of optics that it renders him unfit and forces this outcome.
- jacobush 7y agoAt this point I would think the Chinese government would take such an action as "defiance". If Apple is worried Chine might close its supply chains, opening up side loading would really piss them off. Plus it's just not in the DNA of Apple to do side loading. Goes against the grain of everything.