[frzj]

Analogies are always misleading. A cloud provider is no neighbor. They facilitate a specific service, and it is clear that the package is owned by the client. The cloud provider shouldn't have any liability for the data he stores, especially if it's encrypted and not shared to the public, nobody should ever care what's inside the package. If the authorities have a good reason to think that you have drugs or CP in your package, then they can force you to open it.

IMHO, no combination of ones and zeros should ever be illegal. The act of distributing them to others or creating them in the real world should be. The energy stored on a flash drive doesn't harm anybody, human action does.

[askafriend]

iCloud servers are not your property, they are Apple’s property. Even the neighbor terminology is accurate since there’s is an implied trust higher than a random stranger.

OP’s analogy is spot on.

[rank0]

It’s really not. A commercial service is not like a residential neighbor.

Apple is asking that people store their shoe boxes in Apple’s “house” in exchange for money.