<story><title>Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/03/apple-delaying-rollout-of-child-safety-features/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>numair</author><text>For everyone who is saying that the technical community “won”... Nobody’s been fired. Rather, Apple’s senior execs &lt;i&gt;publicly doubled down&lt;/i&gt; and basically labeled those of us who thought this scheme to be insane, as a bunch of uninformed idiots...&lt;p&gt;You can change a product decision in a day, but it takes a LONG time to change a culture that thinks these sort of insane product decisions make any sense whatsoever. Making a long-term bet on Apple has become precarious at best.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>livueta</author><text>Yeah. I think some celebration is warranted, but the &amp;quot;disaster averted, my iPhone is back to being a trustworthy user agent&amp;quot; take seems to be a bit myopic when the core problem is that Apple possesses enough control over the devices it sells to be able to implement something like this by fiat. Sure, Apple backed down today, but until users are able to exercise the four essential freedoms they&amp;#x27;re living under the sword of Damocles.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/03/apple-delaying-rollout-of-child-safety-features/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>numair</author><text>For everyone who is saying that the technical community “won”... Nobody’s been fired. Rather, Apple’s senior execs &lt;i&gt;publicly doubled down&lt;/i&gt; and basically labeled those of us who thought this scheme to be insane, as a bunch of uninformed idiots...&lt;p&gt;You can change a product decision in a day, but it takes a LONG time to change a culture that thinks these sort of insane product decisions make any sense whatsoever. Making a long-term bet on Apple has become precarious at best.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hughrr</author><text>Yeah the thing that really got me was the double down. They are not on my side.</text></comment>