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You just have a flawed definition of success.

By allowing people to shoot themselves in the foot after ignoring a unmistakable warning, you are helping teach the foolish to be more careful in the future. Making mistakes is the best way to learn something.

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People who just ignore big banners will just tell you that "they have been hacked", as if getting hacked is like a weather phenomenon. They won't even connect them getting hacked with the big red banner.

If they even notice, that is. It's just as possible that they play open relay for a year before they move to a new phone because their battery is always dying so fast for some unknown reason.

Right, but the whole point of warnings is to make people be more careful on average than they would otherwise be.

What reason do you have to believe that this goal wasn't achieved?

The end result is people just buy iPhones and perceive them to be more secure.

Who cares? It's their choice.

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