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Apple simply needs to exercise its right to deplatform everyone who works for NSO. Oh and deplatform all government wonks of government of Israel as it is allowing NSO Group to operate.

Life in 2021 is very difficult without a smartphone. In fact it is so difficult that if working for NSO comes with "no smartphone forever" sticker NSO won't be able to find people to work for it.

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It would be quite a blow if the 5% of Israeli government who use IPhones (IPhones aren't really popular outside the U.S) suddenly have to switch to Android. As an extreme measure I suggest blocking their itunes accounts. And no more Macbooks! Settle for some cheaper superior hardware elsewhere!

People with money, who tend to be people with power, use Apple devices.

Not really. Its a U.S thing.

> Life in 2021 is very difficult without a smartphone.

It's actually not, at least in the US. Tons of people do it.

US population for 2020 is 329.5 million. 18 percent of US population fell between 0-14 years old in 2019. US has over 290 million smatphones in 2020.

We can confidently presume anyone who works for a tech company such as NSO does not live like a Luddite.

I know a dozen or so people who don't have smartphones. They are also work in the tech sector and are the exact opposite of being luddites.

But the comment I was responding to was asserting that going without a smartphone is difficult. It most certainly is not. It's less convenient, but not difficult.

> But the comment I was responding to was asserting that going without a smartphone is difficult. It most certainly is not. It's less convenient, but not difficult.

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