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In a years time we'll forget about it and the result of what will happen. And Apple may do it anyway in the quiet so they win customers by publicity and win the government.

If the government want something done, surely it will have to be eventually? What do apple have to win by going up against them? Gov could make their life pretty difficult?

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Transplant yourself to any other police state. Anywhere with a very strong government hell bent on controlling its citizens. Eastern Germany, Or the USSR, or Germany under the Nazis.

How did the government get such power? Immediately via overthrow, or incrementally?

At what point do you draw the line? Has there ever been a government that got some power and then stopped trying to get more? Look at the history of the USA for the past 200 years.

Apple is trying to draw a line in the sand. We can debate about where the line should be, but there has to be a line.

This doesnt explain why they're not after marketing, or prove they are trying to draw a line without any other ulterior motive :)

No-ones going to ever know really, bar apple and the gov

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