Bad news. Pro-privacy AAPL CEO Tim Cook has to take private meeting with the President today.

[wilburbear]

AAPL was one of the last holdouts on the government's mass surveillance of U.S. citizens in the PRISM system.

Cook is still militant on pro-privacy issues. Now he's signed up for a personal meeting with the President that he didn't initiate.....

Buy a Chinese-brand phone that the U.S. government is trying to stop - like Huawei. The U.S. government's actions are revealing that it's harder for them to tap into the Huawei phone.

https://www.fastcompany.com/40563691/tim-cook-will-have-a-private-meeting-with-president-trump-today

 

[bookish]

government's actions are revealing that it's harder for them to tap into the Huawei phone.

Thats it! There was something about it that sounded like bullshit to me and thats it. The manufacturer probably isn't cooperating with putting a back door on the phone or something.