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Yes, but Apple wouldn't do this, because Apple is also at risk of losing customers when people get blocked by network security at work. We could also fantasize about Apple fighting all the tracking everywhere, including their own services...
Quite frankly, it's a bit silly to paint Apple as some privacy fortress, who wouldn't have to comply with law enforcement/intelligence to unmask/tap traffic. I mean, for a lot of people VPN choice is done considering legal jurisdictions somewhere far away. Apple could/would never possibly offer this level of protection.
> when people get blocked by network security at work
There were also plenty of corp-ware in existence that had Flash as *absolutely mandatory*.
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I wonder if people will start using this as magic security sauce.
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it's not like regular people can afford this kind of Apple machine anyway.
It’s just depressing that the “PC in every home” era is being rapidly pulled out from under our feet by all these supply shocks.
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Don't bring one into your house?
TV Manufacturers: “oh no!” *proceeds to remove all dumb TVs from the market*
Here I was thinking this would be IrDA.
It does actually happen quite often, but then the good company predictably goes bad once its dominant, which may or may not be premeditated.
Indeed, often the only way the good company can afford to be good is the prospect of eventually being able to be bad, worse even, to pay back that speculative investment. And on-and-on we go.
Don't forget the other fun variant: Bad company sees the rise of Good company, offers the founders F-U money, then puts all of Good Co.'s products into maintenance-mode post-acquisition to prevent them from competing with Bad Co.