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This one is annoying to me. I'm pretty sure Apple literally paid for that reputation. They just started marketing themselves as privacy focused a few years ago
by dcow 5y ago
This one is annoying to me. I'm pretty sure Apple literally paid for that reputation. They just started marketing themselves as privacy focused a few years ago and everyone slurped it up. What's annoying about it? Well beyond them milking the privacy wave, I do believe that at a hardware and system software level Apple did outplay the competition for a very long time. Keychain, Secure enclave, biometric auth, secure boot, signed binaries, pointer auth, etc. They've pushed the state of the art in regards to those technologies making it into consumer hands and did it better than anybody else. So it's somewhat justified. But then they milked it and because the left hand doesn't know what the right is doing, are now taking a complete 180 "for the kids".
- bdfgrssd 5y agoWith the exception of Keychain and Biometric auth, everything you mentioned ultimately benefits the party that controls the trust root on the device (apple) significantly more than the user of the device. At least with the right Android device I can flash my own keys to the trust root.
- dcow 5y agoSure but it also is good security. I too would prefer Apple to let me flash my own trust root. Doesn't mean the tech isn’t valid and security/privacy centric just because Apple uses it to lock their platform down.
- jjoonathan 5y agoYou say that they just paid for the reputation through marketing, but then you list ways that they earned it. You can't have it both ways. Of course, now they've gone and un-earned the reputation. Too bad.
- dcow 5y agoNo what I’m saying is it’s annoying me because they’ve both earned the reputation and also marketed the hell out of it. Apple seems to want it both ways then they go and do this.