That Apple is prepared to fight the FBI’s insistence that it create software that would help law enforcement unlock an iPhone has been clear from the beginning. The company’s response has been active on its own site, in the media, in legal briefs, and before Congress. Cook’s message was of a piece with what Apple has repeatedly stressed.
The more powerful message, though, came a few minutes later in the keynote address in the form of a new platform called CareKit, which would let developers introduce health care apps capable of monitoring a wealth of information though Apple devices. The kind of data that you’d want to guard as closely as your own heartbeat.
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