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[–] Clathrate_Gun@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Apple holding its ground against fascist anti-privacy demands is like the one topic where the anti-Apple brigaders don’t jump in to tell us about how Apple is an evil anti-customer machine.

Edit: Nevermind it turns out I’m wrong.

{posted from my iPhone}

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They are still evil anti-customer machine, but reasonable people can acknowledge when they are doing something positive even when it's done for selfish reasons.

Also, their PR person is a joke.

“We are gravely disappointed that the protections provided by ADP are not available to our customers in the UK given the continuing rise of data breaches and other threats to customer privacy.”

So if you cared that much, why did you refuse to add iCloud end-to-end encryption for 11 years?