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I've never been a customer of Apple but I'll try and imagine the experience... I might trust them to assemble hardware and write software for my consumer needs
by sennight 5y ago
I've never been a customer of Apple but I'll try and imagine the experience... I might trust them to assemble hardware and write software for my consumer needs - but that doesn't mean I trust them to competently reason about me potentially being a pedo. That is only a small part of a much larger point, but it is reason enough alone.
- dwaite 5y agoApple's responsibility ends with notifying law enforcement, at which point presumably there would be a subpoena for evidence and a trial. The concern people have is logic on their phone snitching on them, with scenarios based on authoritative regimes setting the baseline of what is scanned/reported. Apple is not serving as judge, jury and executioner (unless there is an electric shock delivery system being added to the iPhone 13)
- sennight 5y agoThat could be the most obnoxious nitpick I've ever heard, do you honestly think anybody is worried about Apple doing anything beyond submitting a false report - and that you are being helpful by pointing out that they can only do that very thing? Do you think that might be why I said "competently reason about" instead of "send the Apple genius death squad"?
- Grustaf 5y agoMy point is that people seem to think that this feature somehow makes it easier for Apple to spy on you. In fact it doesn’t make any difference at all, since they already have full access to everything you do on the phone, so if you don’t trust them you shouldn’t use an iphone.