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I'm a little confused by the "Apple's doing bad here" sentiment. The easier to implement, and definitely more effective solution would have been to just disable
by travisgriggs 4y ago
I'm a little confused by the "Apple's doing bad here" sentiment. The easier to implement, and definitely more effective solution would have been to just disable the Everyone feature completely. Just remove it from the menu. This would have been something like
action.isEnabled = self.isInChina
Instead, they went through the effort to actually make it still there, but time bombed. They had to add a timeout function, and record the time it was enabled, etc. And at the end of the day, the activist/protestor at a street gathering now has the inconvenience of re-enabling "everyone" 6 times an hour.
For me, this basically feels like lip service to the Chinese government, but otherwise a finger. Maybe I'm beeing too myopic.
- killjoywashere 4y agoYeah, I quite agree. Reposting my comment from above here because this makes a better thread ... I think this 10 minute delay might actually be intended to be protective for the protestors. Any radio transmitter is a beacon that can be localized and destroyed. In serious warfare this is a major issue. "I'm up, they see me, I'm down" is drilled into military operators early and often.
- randyrand 4y agoYou think Apple is trying to protect protestors? Do you know which country manufactures the iPhone? Apple is not suicidal.
- xpe 4y agoThere is a delicate balance of action and phrasing in China, no? It seems two contradictory ideas can coexist for significant lengths of time; e.g. see the complexities around Taiwan's relationship with China. Perhaps someone with a deeper knowledge of the culture can explain it better.
- ralfd 4y ago> For me, this basically feels like lip service to the Chinese government, but otherwise a finger. Maybe I'm beeing too myopic. Plus they led everyone know about China in rolling the feature change there first.
- 2muchcoffeeman 4y agoI guess it works both ways though. If everyone had it on, you can't easily arrest every iPhone user. And people could spread information really quickly. Now you have to turn it on for 10 minutes at a time so you aren't organising that mass protest as fast.
- andromeduck 4y agoThe main use case here is sending stuff in high traffic places w/ plausible deniability such as during your commute or at a mall.
- mensetmanusman 4y agoNo, that’s a silly solution because airdrop everyone is super useful.