Donald Trump calls for Apple boycott

[denem]

Source: USA Today

Donald Trump is taking aim at Apple over its refusal to comply with a court order to unlock a phone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists.

Speaking at a rally in South Carolina the day before the state's pivotal GOP presidential primary, Trump said, "First of all, Apple ought to give the security for that phone, OK. What I think you ought to do is boycott Apple until such time as they give that security number."

"I just thought of it," he said. "Boycott Apple."

Trump didn't backdown from his call on Twitter later, saying he used an iPhone and Samsung phone, but until Apple followed the court order, "I'll only be using Samsung."

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/02/19/donald-trump-apple-boycott/80626758/

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The Donald forgot to mention that it's easy to unlock an iPhone. All he has to do is type in 1 2 3 4

[still_one]

1. How about boycotting Apple for sweat shops in Asia, and socking away 30 billion in Ireland to avoid

taxes instead?

[denem]

2. Lucky Samsung doesn't employ sweat shops

and pays US income taxes on handsets sold here.

[still_one]

3. I am not picking on Apple, the same thing applies to Samsung, Google and others

This thread was specifically mentioning Apple which is why I referred to Apple in my comment

[denem]

6. Samsung ranks just a few rungs below Monsanto & Goldman in my book,

so I tend to bite on this sort of stuff. It's not what Samsung does in the States, it is what it practices in Korea. Let's leave it at that.

[still_one]

17. No surprise here from me. They try to have their nose in everything. I am referring to Samsung

[ToxMarz]

4. LOL, Donald Trump doesn't know Apple fanboys, or users in general

Majority of them don't even know or care whose running for President. Most use them because whoever in their sphere of influence said that is what you are supposed to have. Or it is a status symbol, so yeah, they're gonna go get a Blackberry.

[Grassy Knoll]

5. Pic Of Donnie Thinking Different...

[olddad56]

7. how about Apple call for a boycott of Donald Trump.

[elleng]

8. Yea, saw him say it, "I just thought of this."

Heckuva candidate, eh???

[3catwoman3]

19. Shoot first.

Ask questions later.

[elleng]

20. REALLY!

[jpak]

9. and the Vile Apricots and Figs too!!!11111

[jmowreader]

10. If Apple would have unlocked the phone, he'd have called for a boycott too

There's a pretty good chance Apple CAN'T give the code, but Mr. Four Bankruptcies doesn't care about that.

[FailureToCommunicate]

23. As reports have said, the code to unlock an iPhone doesn't exist. And if forced to make it, it

would -potentially- unlock EVERY damn iPhone they -or China, or anyone- wanted to unlock.
Is every iPhone user okay with having their personal life forced open, by law enforcement, or government, or foreign governments?

No? I didn't think so.

[AllyCat]

25. No. I am not okay with that

[jmowreader]

26. I didn't think they'd build a backdoor into these things

I am SERIOUSLY not worried about "law enforcement, or government, or foreign governments" forcing my personal life open. This is not East Germany. The police have nothing to gain by spying on random citizens for no reason.

What I am VERY worried about is criminals breaking into iPhones and stealing their owners' financial data. Those guys have a lot to gain by doing it, and they will do it with impunity. So...no backdoors. Period.

[cstanleytech]

11. Well both Trump and the court have something in common it seems, they both sound as stupid as shit.

[onehandle]

12. The Most Popular Reality Show Star In History Vs. The Most Admired (and desired) Brand In History.

Apple will be here long after this never-president will.

[houston16revival]

13. Do you get the idea

that he is going to be running every aspect of your life soon?

No concept of boundaries, which is usually a characteristic of
borderline personality disorder.

[denem]

14. Narcissism in action = I would do it, so will you.

It's a dangerous variant of totalitarism. Rather than 'fool' the people, it's people who don't agree with me are 'fools' they are 'stupid'. Get them out of 'our' way.

[houston16revival]

22. Unique perspective

thanks, enlarged my take on narcissists, I thought I knew it all from a
classic head case I met

And I now understand my family better! lol

[longship]

15. Any secure tech cannot be easily broken.

And any back door is nothing but an invitation to exploitation by the very nefarious dudes one wants to keep out. Why? Oh why do these idiots not understand these very simple facts.

Apple is correct to say, "Not only no, but hell no!"

Sheesh!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. Fascist Big Brother theRump loves to control people. Apple stands against fascism.

Reference the 1984 Big Brother ad when Apple introduced the Macintosh:


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(though some may say that the total Apple control of the Mac / iPhone ecosystem is a different kind of fascism )

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. Reuters et al report Feds changed password on phone first 24 hours and forgot it

Reuters via HuffPo: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/us-apple-san-bernadino_us_56c7755de4b0928f5a6bcd29

The two senior Apple executives said the company had worked hard to help investigators and tried multiple avenues including sending engineers with FBI agents to a WiFi network that would recognize the phone and begin an automatic backup if that had been enabled.

They criticized government officials who reset the Apple identification associated with the phone, which closed off the possibility of recovering information from it through that automatic cloud backup.

The government first disclosed the identification change in a footnote to its filing Friday. The Apple executives said that the reset occurred before Apple was consulted. The Justice Department declined to comment on that contention.

[William Seger]

30. They changed the phone's unique ID, not the password (n/t)

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. My snap take on sides: GOP & Dem politicians siding with Feds, newspapers & forums siding with Apple

It's unsual to see Google and Rush Limbaugh (among many) siding against Cruz and Feinstein.

[JudyM]

24. Is he testing his "I can start a revolution, too" powers? Nt

[Bohemianwriter]

27. All of a sudden..

...An apple seems so juicy and tempting....

[Bohemianwriter]

28. Don't know where Apple is produced...

....But anything coming out of China have built in back doors already...

Both PCs and phones...

[Travis_0004]

29. If it did, the FBI wouldnt be asking for apples help.

Im guessing there is not known back door. At least not one the FBI can uncover.

[William Seger]

31. There isn't any backdoor

The FBI wants Apple to disable the code that would wipe the phone's memory after 10 incorrect password attempts. With that disabled, the FBI can find the password by a "brute force" attack.

[truthisfreedom]

32. I just thought of it.

Boycott Trimp.

[truthisfreedom]

33. I meant Trimp.

[truthisfreedom]

34. Seriously. Boycott Trimp!

Trimp Trimp Trimp Trimp

[GOLGO 13]

35. Dumbass Trump. This is the kind of hipster cred that Apple normally pays $$$$

Trump is just generating instant street cred to Apple's brand for FREE. Just by dragging their heels, getting bozos like Trump to talk about Apple "fighting the MAN", gives Apple instant win.