22 Apple facts we’ve learned this week

Apple released a host of deeply interesting internal information recently, but much of this was masked by news of WWDC and other big events. So I’ve pulled together a few highlights in case you missed them.

Transparency

A host of information was included within Apple’s latest Transparency Report, what follows are just a few significant highlights to the report, which you can take a look at yourself right here:

• Apple received over 30,000 law enforcement requests
• A tiny 178 of these requests were emergency requests made in order to prevent imminent death or injury to a person. All the rest seemed to relate to snooping.
• Apple complied with up to 82 percent of these requests – most of these relate to lost or stolen devices.
• The company received between 1,250 and 1,499 National Security Requests
• It is interesting that Apple received more requests concerning lost or stolen devices from the UK than China.
• What’s more interesting that the UK (208) is second only to the US (1,015) in requesting information about a holder’s iCloud account. For comparison, China made just 32 such requests (albeit for a large number of accounts).

Security

Apple gave analyst Ben Bajarin what must have been a fascinating insight into how it handles security and its commitment to delivering industry-leading security in products that remain easy-to-use. As you’d expect there were a host of interesting snippets to be learned (including the “average user unlocks their iPhone 80 times per day snippet that’s been going around). A few more bits of data to stimulate your thinking:

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