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Why won't Apple sell one of these to anyone who wants it? Why do they make you jump through hoops and beg to borrow one of a very limited number per year?
by josephcsible 4y ago
Why won't Apple sell one of these to anyone who wants it? Why do they make you jump through hoops and beg to borrow one of a very limited number per year?
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- kube-system 4y agoI would imagine they don’t want anyone making some sort of secondary market out of the devices
- upon_drumhead 4y agoIf they sold them to anyone that wanted one, what possible secondary market could there be?
- zakki 4y agoAnyone that doesn’t want to be identified by Apple?
- KingLancelot 4y ago[dead]
- kube-system 4y agoI mean, phones sold by third parties for uses other that security research. They don’t want these just floating around secondhand confusing people who are looking for a regular phone. Or people buying them because some YouTube video told them “one cool trick” they could do with them. And now that I think of it, there’s probably some specific bad actors they don’t want to give one to.
- simondotau 4y agoThe price (likely many many, many thousands of dollars) would turn off nearly everyone. In addition they could package the electronics into a chassis which makes the device entirely impractical as an everyday carry phone.
- riversflow 4y agoBecause they want to make sure that only the good guys get them. They don't want these to get into the hands of the NSO Group, as a nameable example.
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