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What mass panic? Did I miss the part where entire towns were burning their iPhones? Most people don’t know or care about security, and even if this was “sensationalized” do you honestly believe everyone didn’t just forget about it a week later? Is there anyone who actually believes this will have any effect on iPhone sales?


It seems you did miss all the press coverage of this event.

Here's one: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbmgqp/this-is-worst-year...


No, I saw that -- maybe you missed every other flavor-of-the-week coverage for the past 10 years? Panic refers to user's reactions -- not what the news cycle generates for a given week. When information about Uber came out, at least #dumpuber trended or whatever, actual users wanting to change their behavior in response to events relating to a company. I didn't see that at all with this. This article is entirely about how members of the industry feel about Apple I guess? At least when the assertions aren't completely passive like "Apple’s perception as the secure consumer device is starting to crack." -- Apple's perception has cracked WITH WHOM??

The general population is completely burnt out about security stuff -- they hear about their bank getting hacked and releasing all their records like twice a year now. No one "panics" over that anymore either. This is no different, if they'll even be able to recall them being separate events a year from now.




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