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disgrace |disˈgrās| noun loss of reputation or respect, esp. as the result of a dishonorable action [ in sing. ] a person or thing regarded as shameful and unacceptable

How is it a disgrace? You're making it sound like Apple meant for this to happen, this could've happen to any companies.

Apple should not be portrayed to be perfect at everything, they're lead by humans who can make mistakes, just like everybody else.

Apple's fixing the problem, it is taking longer than they expected it to. Nothing shameful or unacceptable here, just a nature of technology and mistakes/bugs.

We do not know the full scale of the problem, media needs to stop acting like it's just 13 bugs reported by a hacker (sorry, if he wants to be a "security researcher", he could've acted like one). It is entirely possible that the 13 bugs was just a small scale of the problem and Apple've found more extensive problems that can't be fixed quickly.

iOS 7 can be delayed to make up for the loss of time developers need or the developers will have to delay their apps.

Stuff happens, we just have to rough it out, and move on.




> How is it a disgrace? You're making it sound like Apple meant for this to happen, this could've happen to any companies.

Well if Ibrahim is to be believed, Apple failed to reasonably handle his disclosure of the security flaws. Apple is not entirely at fault, but they surely failed to protect their users' data. Users trusted Apple to prevent this from happening, but they have failed. That is a disgrace.


He created a bug in a portal of hundreds of thousands of bugs. That was not even two weeks ago.

I'd be surprised if someone had even looked at the bug until a few days ago. Then they did some investigating, determined it to be true and ran up the manager ladder till someone said shut it down.




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