So Apple, they're back in the news.

Obviously, been left out of the smartphone conversation a little bit lately.

There's been so much going on with the likes of Huawei, Samsung, and so forth.

They kind of jump back in though a little bit here,

granting an exclusive, never before seen look at their privacy and security work

some of their testing facilities they invited a very specific person they didn't

invite me they invited Andrew Griffin instead from independent.co.uk.

They let him in a facility and he brought a couple of hard-hitting questions.

Some people are perceiving some of the answers to those questions

as potentially some sort of shots at companies like Huawei, the sort of passive aggressive style shots.

You know, Apple's been making all these claims relating to privacy specifically and

that's kind of, that's an area that's under a new layer, a new level of scrutiny in the public eye in the technology segment in general, not just physical technology products like smartphones, but also for

companies like Facebook, Google and so forth and how they treat user data and where they

store it in the whole big picture.

So some are perceiving some of the answers within this

particular interview as shots at those various competitors at those various companies.

The individual interviewed Craig Federigi.

You've probably seen him on a stage before

at a keynote address.

It's very likely.

In fact, that you've seen that. So he's a, I believe he's a product guy.

Anyhow, he hosted this tour around Apple's testing facility

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