[robert4]

The article says that... large company has to do what a national government tells them to?

Should this really be something we consider negatively? I believe quite strongly that privacy is a fundamental right. Apple obviously doesn't always act in everyone's best interests but they seem to be doing the most toward improving the overall computing experience by implementing privacy protections in their products.

Personally I am happy with the balance they strike between security, usability, and privacy. My primary threat model for keeping things private doesn't include my government, and if it did a large foreign company is one of the last places I would turn to. For what I do care about, at least for now Apple still has my trust (until they prove it's misplaced).

[ksec]

>Should this really be something we consider negatively?

Only because they said it is a fundamental human right.

What Apple don't understand is the way they have been doing PR and public messages and marketing in the past 4-5 years reeks of hypocrisy. It is similar to Developer Relations as Macro Arment pointed out [1]. It is very much Google in the early 00s.

Change the message to good old Steve Jobs fashion, helping their customers. And I am fine.

[1] https://marco.org/2021/06/03/developer-relations

[true_religion]

Fundamental human rights should be guaranteed by governments, and not corporations.

If as a matter of policy, we want China to change its human rights stance, then we ought to use our government as the tool to enforce those changes.