Paul in de Emiraten

@NotSteve_ @Sunshine that why I didn’t get the fuss.

Here in the Emirates; if I use Apple Maps, it still is “Gulf of Mexico”. So I thought you’re all lying! And making Tim and Trump look bad.

But now I get it.

BTW: Apple calls the Arabian Gulf the Persian Gulf.
Not nice.
;-)

@xenomor @cyrano I very much sympathise with you. I used to be unapologetic for everything Apple did. But the privacy washing really irks me. I’m a privacy hawk and either you do whatever you can to protect the privacy of your clients, or you don’t. There is hardly a sensible middle road.

@WhatAmLemmy @Alphane_Moon it’s a searchable and well-known fact that about 10,000 times the government of the Netherlands asked Apple to handover the keys of a specific iCloud account. It’s also searchable in the database of the Dutch government in about 6600 cases per year(!) Apple does hand over these keys. In about 3000 cases Apple refuses to do so.

@D1G17AL @fourish That may be true and I would not spend that kind of money if it weren’t for the ecosystem.
And, since the DNA of Apple is building and selling hardware, it’s only logical that they can be a privacy advocate. At least more so than other big companies.

Final point: they are the only tech company with professional customer care (where you pay for, one way or the other) that actually helps and saved my ass a couple of times in the past.