Be that as it may, China also has persistent threat actors outfoxing American cybersecurity in the form of Salt Typhoon. The cards are on the table, and the US is already undoubtedly losing several fronts of asymmetrical warfare.
I have a friend who, to explain it simply, worked medium high up in the CIA for 8-12 years during Bush and Obama. The only time he gets serious about talking about his time there is on this topic. Chinas cyber security is, according to him, light years ahead of the US to the point where its embarrassing.
If I understand Salt Typhoon correctly it's a masterpiece. The descriptions I've seen indicate that they penetrated lawful intercept. Lawful intercept operates outside network operators network management systems because it was designed not to trust the network operators. I am skeptical of claims that Salt Typhoon has been eliminated from US networks. Any such implicitly claim to detect lawful intercept traffic and ensure it isn't nefarious, which traffic that system is designed to hide.
> It used to believe it could change the world. Now it just hopes the world won’t change its stock price.
If you ever believed in that "we're going to change the world" crap then you'd probably fall for anything. It's marketing. Nobody writing that stuff ever believed a lick of it, it was manufactured from wholecloth to fool people that thought technology was apolitical.
The only difference between today's Apple and 2006's Apple is the fact that they quit virtue signalling.
That falls short of explaining Big Tech. In fact, I find the issue to be quite the opposite: greed incarnate though they may also be, those zucking us do believe in changing the world; they're billionaires, therefore they know better than us and they can, and must, guide us to utopia or protect us from dystopia, which means their means are justified, all of them, as their wealth is our wealth and their detriment is our detriment.
They should have pushed for it years ago, ARM's devicetree clutter and bootloader "diversity" has been a curse on the end user. At this point it's too late, and doubtful that they even have the influence to make OEMs adopt it.
I had a look at some of their Neutral points of view,
One example pointing out Wikipedia's bias. "You can see this in political coverage, where editors built a lattice of articles declaring Donald Trump an authoritarian."
Steam on Linux is great. I'm playing Deadlock and Arc Raiders on my 3070 Ti without issue, highly recommend it if you're not playing FaceIts or Valorant.
I dunno. I also think about how Jobs swindled and mistreated Woz time after time, many of the nerds who cut their teeth on the Apple IIc were appalled by the road he took. By the time the Macintosh released, Apple had cemented themselves as a capricious OEM with no interest in serving every minority niche.
Actions like this feel fully contiguous with Jobs' personality, to me. He wasn't afraid to mistreat large swathes of customers, fans or employees if it meant that Apple could cosmetically pull ahead of it's competitors. He didn't feel obligated to fight fair or defend his moral righteousness, and neither does Cook. This is the exact same Apple you always knew, they've just quit virtue signalling.
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