<story><title>Apple confirms iOS kernel code left unencrypted intentionally</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/22/apple-unencrypted-kernel/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kristine1975</author><text>&amp;gt;altruism&lt;p&gt;Then why does Apple avoid paying taxes?&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;#x27;s not kid ourselves: Apple is a company, and companies are only &amp;quot;altruistic&amp;quot; if they expect that it will help their bottom line.</text></item><item><author>headShrinker</author><text> A move like this fits with a more general ideology Apple has been advocating for the last three years. Privacy, security, and ultruism. Tim Cook has put is mark on the company. One of the first things he did was apologize, (for maps) something unheard of in Apple&amp;#x27;s culture. I haven&amp;#x27;t drank the cool-aid and Apple has a lot of issues. I do see they however are making attempts at differentiating from the general corporate behavior of the telecoms and Google. Cook is differentiating from Jobs as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adrianN</author><text>Billings Learned Hand once said:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase one&amp;#x27;s taxes.&lt;p&gt;If we want companies to pay more taxes (which I think we do want) we should change the laws. You can&amp;#x27;t blame anybody for only paying the legally required amount of taxes.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple confirms iOS kernel code left unencrypted intentionally</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/22/apple-unencrypted-kernel/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kristine1975</author><text>&amp;gt;altruism&lt;p&gt;Then why does Apple avoid paying taxes?&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;#x27;s not kid ourselves: Apple is a company, and companies are only &amp;quot;altruistic&amp;quot; if they expect that it will help their bottom line.</text></item><item><author>headShrinker</author><text> A move like this fits with a more general ideology Apple has been advocating for the last three years. Privacy, security, and ultruism. Tim Cook has put is mark on the company. One of the first things he did was apologize, (for maps) something unheard of in Apple&amp;#x27;s culture. I haven&amp;#x27;t drank the cool-aid and Apple has a lot of issues. I do see they however are making attempts at differentiating from the general corporate behavior of the telecoms and Google. Cook is differentiating from Jobs as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amazingman</author><text>This is dogmatism. The FBI situation clearly demonstrates that Apple does not &lt;i&gt;only&lt;/i&gt; act in the interest of the bottom line.</text></comment>