Apple events are usually a beauty pageant for the latest bits of hardware and software we’re all going to spend our money on over the next 12 months. Today was no exception. But what is more surprising to the seasoned Apple observer is just how political the world’s largest technology company has become under Tim Cook. The first half of the presentation was dominated entirely by encryption, the environment and healthcare, issues which historically, Apple has stayed away from. But not under Tim Cook. Apple has become a political juggernaut that is actively steering discourse in the United States. If every…
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