I also fail to see why hit-and-miss tower location data that’s solely on an iPhone in my possession is a worse security breach than identical and far more complete data being taken 24×7 by my cell phone company, particularly since the latter is stored on their own servers. Apple doesn’t have any way of knowing where I am. T-Mobile does.

South Korea should be careful. Steve Jobs has a mean streak and, with Apple awash in cash, they could easily shift a lucrative manufacturing contract to some other country. A few tens of millions in ‘settlements’ could result in a billion dollars or more in manufacturing orders going elsewhere.