I don't believe a fucking word. They'd throw a baby off a bridge for a $2 bump in their stock price.
How would providing data to the USA government raise their stock prices? If anything, it would lower them.
You don't really have to trust Apple to do the right thing here. If - as you say - they are only motivated by profit, then look at what is more profitable for them. Their business model doesn't depend on access to their customers' personal data and habits. Google, on the other hand, makes use of their users' personal data and habits, however benignly you choose to judge that.
Basically, privacy is a competitive advantage Apple have against their biggest rival in the mobile market. If you think they are only motivated by profit, then the reasonable conclusion is that they will act to preserve their customers' privacy rather than disclose it.
Slave trade exists only where people are considered property. We (the western world) are existing in a "slave" market, where the owners take from the sweat of supposedly "free" people (in the form of "Feudal taxes") not by consent, but by threat of government guns. We've only traded one type of owner for another. The only difference is we supposedly elect our kings and queens, rather than have them born into royalty.
We aren't free.
Ahhh, the good old Strawman from leftwingnut crowd.
If you start with PHP, even Brainfuck looks fun and refreshing. Jesus pal, talk about damning a language with faint praise.
Another attempt by a vendor to try to lock in software development and make cross platform development incredibly difficult by introducing a new language.
Fuck, I do tire of the sociopathic tendencies of corporations.
As long as we're going to reinvent the wheel again, we might as well try making it round this time. - Mike Dennison
