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I’m inclined to believe it was a quid-pro-quo (or a play at it). Apple inserts a little back door, in exchange the antitrust case against them will be eased.

• unityByFreedom 5y ago
  That sounds too corrupt to be believed. If someone came out with evidence of that it would completely blow such a deal.
• hughrr 5y ago
  Based on the letter by NCMEC describing opponents to the technology as “screeching voices of the minority”, I suspect this is some kind of variant of being guilted into doing something by either lobbying, marketing or internal proponents. This resulted in a tone deaf death march and now they’re trying to work out how to spin it. This is a fairly typical corporate failure mode. Sometimes the best thing is to do nothing as they have found out because now they’re stuck in a position where the two exits are either piss off everyone by writing off their privacy stance or piss off everyone else for canning child porn scanning. What a complete fuck up.
• michelb 5y ago
  I'm convinced none of these conspiracy theories hold up. This is a typical Apple thing. Thought long and hard about something in a mostly isolated setting and then missing some obvious things.
  • hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
    You might be right. On the other hand, all their past controversial ideas were reasonable from the financial point of view: introduce non-standard connectors, remove the minijack, make the hardware non-upgradeable and so on. All these things were bad for consumers, but good for Apple's bottom line. This one is bad for everybody. Apple's management is not stupid, they must have a good reason.