Posted on 12/20/2015 8:13:36 PM PST by Swordmaker
As expected, this weekend’s episode of 60 Minutes on CBS was chockfull of Apple news and anecdotes. Retail chief Angela Ahrendts, design head Jony Ive, CEO Tim Cook, and many more all joined host Charlie Rose to discuss a wide range of topics, including encryption, terrorism, design, retail, and much more…
First off, Cook again talked about how users shouldn’t have to choose between privacy and national security. “I think that’s an overly simplistic view,” Cook explained. “We’re America. We should have both.” Building on that, Cook reiterated the fact that there shouldn’t be a backdoor for anybody into consumer devices. This is a stance Cook has taken many times in the past, despite the recent issues of terror around the world.
Cook explained that iOS devices nowadays hold so much personal information, including health data, financial data, intimate conversations, and much more. It takes a special key to access that data, Cook said. And that’s a key to which even Apple doesn’t have access.
"If there's a way to get in, somebody will find the way in. There have been people who suggest that we should have a back door. But the reality is if you put a back door in, that back door's for everybody, for good guys and bad guys."
Moving on, Cook and Rose discussed Apple’s use of Chinese labor and some of the issues that go along with it. Cook said that Apple’s use of foreign labor has nothing to do with wages, but rather with the skills that those workers possess and many American workers lack. This, Cook explained, is due to China putting an enormous focus on manufacturing, while the U.S. moved away from a focus on vocational skills:
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Like I said diminishing returns....have a nice evening buddy - you have been eh, entertaining to say the least!
Not the point, but thank you
Who knows Parmy - been an interesting thread to say the least.
Rude, to boot. Discussing me and not pinging me to the discussion. No, I do not. Nor would I banish either of you asshats for your behavior on Apple threads. You may be juvenile and misbehaving here, but I assume your membership on FR means that you are conservatives and must have some redeeming value in other threads.
I've been having a great evening, Honk. I am not in charge of your strange perversions, though. Find your entertainment elsewhere. You have proved to be a typical but uncreative Troll. Stand issue bully: size five intelligence in a size twelve ego.
You’ve lost it bud! Guess I got in your head this evening. Enjoy.
Thanks for posting all the good threads bro.
Thanks for the support. . . unlike the Anti-Apple Hate Brigade Grinches who don't like Apple at all or Apple threads, and, apparently me.
Only in your delusional dreams, Honk. You are only the last in a long line of Apple Hate Brigade members and you are a tyro at this. . . unsophisticated and ignorant. I've been running this list for more than a decade. If you think your little petty posts bothered me in the least you are sadly mistaken. Snark off, little boy.
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