[LeoPanthera]

When the iPhone was new, Apple wasn't fighting surveillance society. They were mainly fighting carriers forcing you to buy shitty locked-down phones preloaded with as many monetization tools as they can fit in them.

So a lot of the basic security of iPhone OS, as it was originally called, was supposed to stop your carrier from fucking it up.

That legacy continues today, even though Apple is pivoting to a "privacy is the product" model. I suspect a lot of these criticisms are a byproduct of that legacy, and not necessarily a sign of trouble in the future.

I still trust Apple - but Apple will have to continue to work hard to maintain that trust.