Yeah so far I don’t think Apple has done anything equivalent in importance to the Enigma code breakers to warrant the comparison so when someone from Apple says they can’t tell me what they’re working on it just sounds like corporate arrogance or paranoia, smoke and mirrors to play up a carefully crafted and managed corporate image, not something I’m counting on for the future of society.
>Yeah so far I don’t think Apple has done anything equivalent in importance to the Enigma code breakers
That's probably because the Enigma code breaking has been mythologized. The war would have won without it (and it mostly was on the Eastern front anyway).
Yeah, while that was even less important in winning WWII (the Germans were done for, and the Japs were just grasping at straws, uterly defeated), it was hugely important for the cold-war period, and probably forever.
It’s easy to say that in retrospect but to anyone working on it I’m sure it felt more important for the outcome of the war than being able to put 1000 songs in your pocket or whatever.
You can rest assured that their work mattered, even if they couldn’t talk about it.