This isn't about marketing. It's about a security breach. And security breaches take time (> 2 days) to properly investigate and report.
It's entirely possible that this is a massive oversight by Apple and they've been extremely negligent in their security policies.
It's equally possible that there's some bug (that either you or I could easily have made the mistake of introducing) that's resulted in this being possible.
Let's calm things down, give it a few days, and then evaluate. Nobody can make an immediate judgement about the exact causes of problems like this. If you're making judgements at this point, you really have no idea whether you're being accurate or not.
And yes, if it turns out to be negligence on Apple's part, I'll be very angry. But let's wait and see.
My argument was that you were impressed by the press-release. Your opinion of Apple was improved such that you made a post in public expressing your admiration of them for telling you that they'd lost some data that you'd entrusted to them.
This shouldn't happen.
When my 4yr old tells me he did something "wrong" without any prompting (eg. "Dad, I broke your phone"), I'm impressed because he didn't have to out himself, but did so because it was the right thing to do.
Large corporations rarely think in terms of right and wrong... they have a duty to their shareholders, and nobody else. As far as their shareholders are concerned, they shouldn't release damaging information unless not doing so could potentially negatively impact profits down the line. So when Apple tells you they messed up, they're only doing so because they're worried you might find out some other way, which would be worse for them. They aren't doing it out of the kindness of their hearts.
Now if there were a law requiring the disclosure of incidents such as this when personal information is compromised, then Apple wouldn't have a choice in the matter, and they wouldn't be able to fool people like you into thinking they're awesome when they just lost your data through negligence.
> It's entirely possible that this is a massive oversight by Apple and they've been extremely negligent in their security policies.
They just said they'll be updating their software. Why would they do that if they didn't think that that would make the data safer. It's pretty much an admission that they chose not to update the software earlier ie. someone made a decision to use outdated software.
Your post basically amounts to a conspiracy theory.
"It took them 3 days to tell us something happened. Obviously this means they would have kept it secret if it were at all possible."
It takes time to figure out what happened in a breach. That doesn't mean that Apple is some evil company trying to hide the fact that there was a breach.
No, I made no mention whatsoever about how long it took them to tell us. Did you even read my comment?
> That doesn't mean that Apple is some evil company trying to hide the fact that there was a breach.
I never said that they were trying to hide anything. Again, did you even read my comment?
> Obviously this means they would have kept it secret if it were at all possible.
Well yes, that is logical. A corporation would keep such a thing secret if they had a guarantee that there was no other way people could find out. There are good people working at Apple, but they are not Apple. A corporation doesn't have morals. It will not damage itself and threaten profits just for fuzzy feelings, any more than it will drop the price of the iPhone 6 to $20 because that would be a good thing for the poor.
It's entirely possible that this is a massive oversight by Apple and they've been extremely negligent in their security policies.
It's equally possible that there's some bug (that either you or I could easily have made the mistake of introducing) that's resulted in this being possible.
Let's calm things down, give it a few days, and then evaluate. Nobody can make an immediate judgement about the exact causes of problems like this. If you're making judgements at this point, you really have no idea whether you're being accurate or not.
And yes, if it turns out to be negligence on Apple's part, I'll be very angry. But let's wait and see.