Apple shuns the tech industry's apology tour

It has always been one of the more high-minded of the big tech companies

Sorry, Apple’s not sorry. There has been a theme at the tech industry’s big conferences this year: Facebook and other tech giants keep telling us that they’ve learned from their mistakes and are going to be a lot more thoughtful about the far-out stuff they plan on doing in the future.

Apple has been cool to this narrative, and it was striking how the company’s executives danced around the tech backlash story line from the stage on Monday at its annual conference for developers.

Though Apple acknowledged the darker side of society’s obsession with the digital world, it didn’t go anywhere near