I think the metric depend on the network of sites that provide the metric. So a lake of suffisent input from popular website of a country could bias result for such a country. And a shift in the network could result on a shift on the data. The question that remain is was is more accurate before or does this shift result of a better accuracy.
Why would you not believe that? Changing phones isn’t a big deal when upgrading.
Guess the iPhone X’s full screen design was a hit - seen quite a few people on the train here with them; I’m quite surprised given the pricing of the iPhone X line, guess there are more more with cash to spare than I thought.
Maybe even some people bought the iPhone X for the gaming performance.
It's mildly surprising to see countries of the "free world" ask Apple for user data much more often than some authoritarian governments or dictatorships - compare UK, US, AU, DE, FR, ES with HU, RU, CN, TR.
Authoritarian goverments & dictatorships don't need to ask a phone maker for data, they have already existing structures of surveilance (not to mention their targets don't get to say no to using that fingerprint code).
Compare Poland and Germany for example. (Poland - 32 device requests and 14 thousand identifiers vs Germany 13 704 device requests and 26 thousand identifiers). It show that when Poland targets people in bulk while Germany targets specific individuals (each probably requires separate judical order).
Poland famously in 2H2014 made request for data of half a million iPhone users (80% requests for data worldwide). FYI Poland is not at war, under terrorist threat and it is relatively peaceful country but the government like to keep their hands in citizens pockets and it's special branches are out of control.
Yes, but it doesn't state anywhere on the origins of the targets of the requests, only the gov't that made the request. It could contain requests for data on foreign citizens traveling to/in the country.
Why would Chinese government ask Apple for help when they can directly get user data from ISP and Tencent? Chinese local police can read people chat messages in real time.
Also, transparency report for USA: https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/us.html