A non-trivial reason I bought a fairly closed device (macbook) was that Tim Cook, at least publicly, told the FBI to get bent when asked to create a backdoor. Exactly what I want to see, a fight in court.

I would hope to see Apple pull out of the UK market over this, and certainly to stop selling Apple devices to the UK government and to remove the UK government entities from Apple services.

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sdcfgy 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I love this. Apple aren't going to pull out of a market. They aren't pulling out of China for example.

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Hasz 5 hours ago | parent [-]

oh, I know, but I wish they would. You can see what this looks like when someone like CMMG refuses to sell to specific law enforcement agencies based on local law.

	▲	selicos 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Apple of yesteryear is not the Apple of today. Think different. Don't be Evil. Works better. Plays better Where did that all go? Same place as the Christmas bonus and empathy above middle management.

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esskay 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They dont really need to pull out, instead on every single piece of marketing material where they talk about anything remotely close to things affected by this they mention that unfortunately they cant give it to UK users due to the governments desire to erode privacy protection, and really hammer home how bad it is.

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ghostly_s 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This happened 18 months ago, you can stop hoping.