[9thLife]

I would give Apple a little room on this one. Yes, it does look like 1984 all over again but I think the application is “your aging and living alone mother or father”. Or, it could be 1984, Apple-style.

No difference anymore. One man's hammer is another man's bludgeon.

[captmar-vell]

Shades of Revelation 13, which has always appeared to me to be a technology statement around some form of data processing controls,

” . .and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.”

I’ve used an iPhone and iPad daily for many years,

Its not difficult to imagine a future scenario where If you don’t acknowledge some form of allegiance via clicking ‘okay’ on some new government mobile app requirement, maybe you don’t get to make a purchase or do any buying and selling,

The Christians singled out for persecution in the first century, were killed merely because they refused to eat the goods in the market place after they had been dedicated to idols by sprinkling water on them,