147: ‘iTools or Whatever’ With Jim Dalrymple
The Talk Show With John Gruber
John Gruber
3.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2016
⏱️ 119 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What a week. What a week |
| 0:03.8 | God so I thought that we would be talking about my interview with |
| 0:09.2 | Craig Federigian and Eddie Q and Apple software quality and we can get to that later |
| 0:13.2 | But obviously this is this is a week when there's actually a very clear. I can't wait to get to that later |
| 0:20.7 | So let's I mean for anybody who's had their head in the ground all week |
| 0:25.8 | Or anybody who I guess is listening, you know, I guess you always have the preferences podcast because who knows when somebody's gonna listen to you |
| 0:32.0 | Know go back and listen to old episodes, but this was the week where |
| 0:36.3 | Tuesday night Apple published an open letter from Tim Cook |
| 0:41.1 | revealing that the FBI had it has obtained a court order to compel Apple to |
| 0:48.0 | long story short supply the FBI with a custom version of iOS that would help them |
| 0:55.0 | Break the passcode of an iPhone 5c that was owned by or wasn't really owned by it was used by one of the |
| 1:05.6 | shooters in the San Bernardino incident a few months ago, right and |
| 1:12.7 | Apple is saying that you know that they they have helped |
| 1:15.9 | Can cooperate with law enforcement many times in the past and I think they might still in the future |
| 1:21.0 | But in terms of you know what they're willing to do supplying you know more or less writing malware |
| 1:26.7 | For iOS is a line that they don't want to cross and then all hell |
| 1:35.3 | Well, I have a lot of respect for Apple for for standing up for it, you know for what they believe in |
| 1:42.0 | They they could just as easily have have |
| 1:45.6 | You know gone along with it and kept quiet right, but they didn't |
| 1:50.3 | Yeah, I wrote it, you know, it's a funny thing and we can write about this too. It's an interesting. I took an interesting |
| 1:58.4 | Strategy this week on during fireball. I've been very active. I have a lot of posts on this, but I didn't write |
| 2:03.0 | Like a feature of a column or article. It's all just links and my commentary |
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