You still don't get PR, do you?
There's a reason why Apple's legal team has a $1B budget. They're not sitting around waiting to respond to legal risks.
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Apple Expanding 10-Minute 'Everyone' AirDrop Limit to All Users With iOS 16.2
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You still don't get PR, do you?
There's a reason why Apple's legal team has a $1B budget. They're not sitting around waiting to respond to legal risks.
The China comments make me laugh.
Until the new boogeyman was rolled out, we were getting stories like airline pilots telling the plane they’d turn around if people didn’t stop Airdropping porn on the plane.
This isn’t a submission to China, it’s an answer to the seemingly never ending stories of AirDrop abuse.
Until the new boogeyman was rolled out, we were getting stories like airline pilots telling the plane they’d turn around if people didn’t stop Airdropping porn on the plane.
This isn’t a submission to China, it’s an answer to the seemingly never ending stories of AirDrop abuse.
This 10 minutes limitation is dumb. How about:
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- Off
- Contact Only
- 10 Minutes Only
- Forever
I think you are missing my point. This feature was always going to be changed after the bomb threads started happening early this year.
That they implemented it in China first might be due to actions of the Chinese government. But that has nothing to do with Apple rolling out the change globally. Many features are restricted in some countries. So that is not the issue here.
And another cool choice would be On until I receive something, possibly also with a time limit to receive it.
Your answer was a complete contradiction.
Q: Why in China first?
A: To direct negative attention away from Apple.
The negative attention is ALL on Apple for doing it there first. If they had just rolled this out everywhere initially, the negative attention would have been far less.
"This has NOTHING to do with China"
"This might have something to do with China"
There is no way to completely eliminate the negative attention. It's about how to reduce it.
- Option 1: "We limited AirDrop because people were using it to share bomb threats and child photos."
- Option 2: "China made us limit AirDrop."
#1 is high risk and expensive from a legal perspective. Apple introduced AirDrop over 10 years ago. Think about the potential legal settlement for that period.
If Apple were to roll this feature out globally at the same time, the lawyers would see this as an ah-ha moment for #1. Their argument would be Apple knew about the risks and is finally responding after 10 years. Think of all the damages ($$$) over 10 years.
Right now, Apple's narrative is "spam in malls and airports." Very modest. Apple rolled it out in China first so the media thinks China made us do it. That narrative reduces their legal exposure because it has "nothing" to do with bombs and child photos.
Apple apologists make me laugh.
It was Apple's actions to roll this out in China first. If Apple didn't want the blowback or appearance of kowtowing to the CCP, then they should have led with this version applied everywhere.
No doubt the AirDrop abuse is real and this is very well the response to it. Anyone who is will objective follow the sequence of events to consider ALL motivations.
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That's one hell of a pretzel you've twisted. Hope it comes with salt.
As if they couldn't have just added a fourth option...
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If you know lawyers working for an F500 company, buy a drink and talk with them. They're not sitting there all day in reactionary mode.
All they had to do was turn it into a banner instead of a modal so that spam could be easily ignored...
You're right about one thing. Apple's legal team has been working overtime for the last few years to earn that budget by making their products worse and worse.
The appearance of satisfying China is less expensive than settling a lawsuit from iPhone users suing because of exposure to bomb threats and child photos.
This isn’t the place for politics anymore, but the sharpening of knives towards China has been years in the making and is all about their inevitable rise to the top of the economic pile. To accept the nonsense about human rights (look at the last 75 years of world history) after spending decades turning China into the worlds assembly plant is pretty rich.
India and Vietnam will be the new China in 10 years time in terms of where most assembly is done, the Chinese workers are starting to assert their demands for adequate pay a little too strongly for the Western capitalists to stick around there.
John Pilger released a great documentary “The Coming War on China” during the Obama years for anyone that cares that this is all manufactured consent for an upcoming war over economics. Human rights have nothing to do with capitalist motivations.
I can't decide which take is worse. Obviously, it has something to do with China. Equally obvious, is that it was not added to the rest of the world because of China. (And, of course, there are other reasonable explanations within China.)
I go with the simplest explanation. Apple added it in China for either spam, security or censorship reasons at the request of the Chinese government. Apple added it to the rest of the world for both spam and security reasons in response to feedback and usage data.
So stupid- why not just offer this functionality by itself or through a focus? This is blatant pandering to the Chinese government. I’m very disappointed.
You know what else they should expand? Their ridiculously low iCloud data tiers!
No, I don’t agree with you at all. The idea that there is only one reasonable explanation is silly. As is the idea that Apple added it to the rest of the world as a cover story for China.
so how do you explain there is no way to opt in even if 10mins is the default? every court would throw out any suit where someone claims they opted in the feature and then okeyed receiving spam.
so unless you have a different reasonable explanation, you have to live with the only one.
Mine never works unless I set it to "Everyone". I AirDrop to myself *often* between MBP, iPads, iPhone and have to use the Everyone setting even though it's just me. Wonder if I'll have to turn this on explicitly now on every single device every time I want to AirDrop a file or a book.