BobDoLe
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yeah, a ceo wanting to retract a story about hardware spychips in their products is unheard of... because if it were actually true, it would be in apple's best interests to recall/replace every iphone and mac computer made in china (and make it somewhere else). right?
the real takeaway here is the ballsy comment by the news agency. this is them putting skin in the game and calling Apple's bluff, pretty much asking them to fire up a defamation lawsuit or just take them to court to retract the story.""Bloomberg Businessweek's investigation is the result of more than a year of reporting, during which we conducted more than 100 interviews,” the publication said in a statement. “Seventeen individual sources, including government officials and insiders at the companies, confirmed the manipulation of hardware and other elements of the attacks. "We also published three companies’ full statements, as well as a statement from China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "We stand by our story and are confident in our reporting and sources.”"
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Tim Cook's stance is that they looked everywhere and couldn't find any evidence. As if absence of evidence is evidence of absence (it isn't). What you're actually seeing here is Apple covering its butt by showing that they did their due diligence... in other words, they're going on the defense for what could potentially become a class action lawsuit at some point.
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