The lesson here is that it's probably important to do things like the non-apple battery warnings etc because the scammers and hackers will not stop attacking the platform.
The lesson here is that you cannot rely on Apple to act in your interest if they think doing so will hurt them. Note that they aren't special here, any other company will probably act similarly, the difference is that Apple apologists would have you believe they, ahem, think differently.
Did the directly affected companies do the notifications?
I thought Apple had sort of a separate setup in china (data center etc) to mitigate some of the issues there impacting the rest of their user base.
Important thing to keep in mind is that the emails in the article were from 2015, not 2021. Apple was not marketing privacy as heavily back then as they do now. Not trying to justify their action back then at all, as I firmly believe they should’ve notified users, but context matters imho.
Steve Jobs
All Things Digital Conference, 2010
Notice I didn’t say they weren’t pushing privacy at all, I said not as heavily.
Apple has had privacy and security as a core part of their marketing since forever. They also had a whole set of ads and comments in keynotes about how secure and privacy focused OSX was, taking shots at Windows.
I went back and skimmed through the past decade of Apple commercials, keynotes, and interviews by execs. After doing so I stand behind my point that privacy was not marketed the same pre 2017ish as it was after that. Yes, you’d see mentions here and they, but not until around 2017 did it become center stage and the apparent lens through how everything is viewed.
This is a very subjective thing though, so how about we disagree and commit?