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"This is not about ability"

Sure it is. That's exactly what the following statement means: "Apple cannot identify the source of this data". How can you interpret that as anything else but their ability of identifying the source?

The statement is obviously not true; if they were forced to, by a government agency for example, to track the location information from a user from that point on they COULD; saying they can't is wrong IMHO.

The correct thing to say here is that they can, but they don't, unless forced to. But I guess that isn't the message Apple wants to communicate.



If you want to be super petty about it, sure. I don't think that sentence is supposed to be read that way.


Out of context, that is what the statement would read. But with context I would read it as "Apple cannot identify the source of this data 'stored without IP addresses with us'"




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