Internet Must Have Security, Humanity, Apple CEO Tells China(bloomberg.com)
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Internet Must Have Security, Humanity, Apple CEO Tells China
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-03/internet-must-have-security-humanity-apple-chief-tells-china
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Nice to see Apple and Google attending a conference that promotes Internet censorship. I'm sure they're busy changing China from their seat at the table.
There's a concept called first mover disadvantage.
Whilst it might be laudable for a CEO to stand up for principle if the costs outweight the rewards they'll find themselves out of a job. Especially so if a competitor proves that selling principles for profit yields dividends for shareholders.
That's one big reason behind why a few tech companies tried hard to avoid going public. I doubt Tim Cook enjoyed his dinners with Carl Icahn but it's damn hard to thumb your nose at shareholders and avoid a lucrative opportunity based on principle alone. Steve Jobs might have had enough clout to do such a thing (although I'd be surprised if he would have) but Tim Cook and Sundar Pinchai have no such tenure.
Whilst it might be laudable for a CEO to stand up for principle if the costs outweight the rewards they'll find themselves out of a job. Especially so if a competitor proves that selling principles for profit yields dividends for shareholders.
That's one big reason behind why a few tech companies tried hard to avoid going public. I doubt Tim Cook enjoyed his dinners with Carl Icahn but it's damn hard to thumb your nose at shareholders and avoid a lucrative opportunity based on principle alone. Steve Jobs might have had enough clout to do such a thing (although I'd be surprised if he would have) but Tim Cook and Sundar Pinchai have no such tenure.
Chinese styled censorship is not good for democracy, and not the way forward to a better world.
Tim Cook is so busy chasing money, he has lost his principles. I can't blame him for trying to increase Apple's revenue, but I can dislike what he is promoting intensely.
China will change Google and Apple, rather than the other way around.
Tim Cook is so busy chasing money, he has lost his principles. I can't blame him for trying to increase Apple's revenue, but I can dislike what he is promoting intensely.
China will change Google and Apple, rather than the other way around.
Not to mention manufacturing for many components in Apple products happens in China.. China has the reigns on Apple & Google, not the other way around.
This proclamation by Tim is nothing but a weightless PR stunt at best.
This proclamation by Tim is nothing but a weightless PR stunt at best.
Is "democracy" really an unalloyed good now that the Internet has exposed many of the unpatched firmware vulnerabilities in the human mind?
That's a question you can't even pose about the Chinese system if you live under it. So yes, Democracy is better.
I'm not sure that's true, especially because it questions democracy, not the Chinese equivalent.
I don't think it's ever been an unalloyed good, but we still haven't found something better, have we? Maybe we will, but until then, we have to at least push toward what we think is the current "best". And Chinese-style authoritarian... is not it.
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Why can't we blame him? I hear similiar arguments about not criticizing patent lawyers for doing their job. Isn't this a form of moral relativism?
It is inherently bad.
It is inherently bad.
OP means, in the least provocative reading, Cook was making a profit, notwithstanding whether profiteering were morally flawed or not.
Seeing the news coming out of China, I am very dissapointed by Tim’s tone. He is completely overlooking Chinese censorship, hacking the IP of american companies, and the child labor practices.
What he leaves out is end-user control, which translated to political terms, is freedom and self-determination.
Unfortunately this is a political trend in the U.S. now. The current President's administration has changed the generations-long U.S. policy of supporting democracy (self-determination) and freedom for people around the world, as a universal inalienable right, and arguably to some extent, for people in the U.S. who are not political supporters. (I'm trying to talk about the general trend, not the President; the fact that he had enough support to be elected and to enact these policies is evidence for how popular this trend is).
Unfortunately this is a political trend in the U.S. now. The current President's administration has changed the generations-long U.S. policy of supporting democracy (self-determination) and freedom for people around the world, as a universal inalienable right, and arguably to some extent, for people in the U.S. who are not political supporters. (I'm trying to talk about the general trend, not the President; the fact that he had enough support to be elected and to enact these policies is evidence for how popular this trend is).
i'm trying to work out in my head how we really get to the nirvana that twenty years ago seemed so obvious.
one thing is PKI. Start with taking your key to the passport office and get it signed, from there most things like government services call into place, and most apps and walled gardens just whither.
one thing is PKI. Start with taking your key to the passport office and get it signed, from there most things like government services call into place, and most apps and walled gardens just whither.
the second part seems like a bill of rights, the convincing prosecutions of criminal
This is what Google has done and they are not the first. Be very suspicious of utopianism, those who talk of good and evil and those who talk airily about changing the world.
The world changes by millions of micro actions and real sustained sacrifice by thousands maybe millions of people for instance like what individuals like Stallman and Linus have done in open source, and not sloganeering and sellouts.