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Apple is forgetting the network effect of professionals that made them billionaires. I personally evangelized my clients in the past for years to switch to Appl
by nbzso 5y ago
Apple is forgetting the network effect of professionals that made them billionaires. I personally evangelized my clients in the past for years to switch to Apple ecosystem.
In my view this is weaponization of personal devices on a mass scale with clear intent of normalization of surveillance state on a global level.
The fact that this comes after NSO spyware investigation speaks volumes.
They don't care about privacy. They care about control over user data.
I hope this will give power to Linux and FOSS movement and be the beginning of serious Apple detox.
- lovemenot 5y agoThe empowerment that you feel you once lent to Apple may no longer be part of their growth plan. Whether or not it actually mattered at the time.
- nbzso 5y agoThe empowerment at the time was a honest and professional assessment of using MacOS X vs Windows. Apple embraced PC vs Mac marketing as I can remember. The empowerment today is the same professional stance. Explaining the technical facts to my customers. Nobody will like the idea that their phone or personal computer will actively police on the behalf of big brother. Serious business people don't have to "follow" tech closely. That's why they pay us.
- parasubvert 5y agoAs a fellow professional, I think this is kind of nonsense. Apple (and all these companies) also operate in a world with a populace that WANTS surveillance for these areas, does not agree that it is a slippery slope, and has voted in governments where that eventually will force Apple to install an even worse back door. The Linux and FOSS movement have never been up to the end user device challenge, and they too operate in a world with a populace that WANTS surveillance for this stuff. The solution to true privacy is never going to be “switch to FOSS” for most users, as that’s sort of like saying “get a degree in math”. It will work for some, but it will be an unstable experience. The solution has to be to a) ensuring democracy survives and b) convincing most people that the right to privacy is more important than finding child pornographers, and c) to vote for representatives that will uphold that right.
- nbzso 5y agoSorry. I am biased on "political" solutions. In the country where I live politicians are just mercenaries for hire. Most of them are direct successors of communist apparatus or political project of inner circles with economical power. Looking at the EU legislators, they will like Apple idea a lot, so my options are limited to technical evangelism for people that care.
- parasubvert 5y agoFair, in those situations I think FOSS / darknet solutions increasingly will be the only way to have true privacy.