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This is my take on what Tim Cook should have answered > If customers really value real, safe drugs, even if there's multiple drug suppliers (some offering fake
by peoplefromibiza 5y ago
This is my take on what Tim Cook should have answered
> If customers really value real, safe drugs, even if there's multiple drug suppliers (some offering fake, unsafe drugs), people should still go to a pharmacy?
That shouldn't be Apple problem, we have governments for that.
> Will people not be able to distinguish between safe drugs and fake unsafe drugs
That shouldn't be our concern, we as the supplier of the market place should only worry about abiding to the law and report those that don't when they use our system
If they don't use our system, it shouldn't be our responsibility.
But Tim Cook is not on trial for selling illegal drugs, he's trying to make Apple look like the only possible guardian of user's safety.
Because it's in Apple interests, not because it's best for users (I mean that Tim Cook can't possibly know if Epic store would be less safe than theirs, he - admittedly - never made that experiment)
- notamy 5y ago> That shouldn't be Apple problem, we have governments for that. Given the fast pace that technology moves at, and the comparatively-slow pace at which government / legislation works, this may not be the best move in terms of keeping progress going. Especially since governments are notoriously bad at understanding tech.
- peoplefromibiza 5y agoIn my opinion tech companies are also historically bad at "understanding" boundaries and blame the government for it. In this case in particular Apple is not doing the government's job because government is bad at understanding tech, it's not about progress, it's about control. They are betting, IMO, on the fact that politics and laws have a lot of inertia and are slow at adapting to new fringe interpretations of the norms.