[gfodor]

Every time a company does something controversial, the canard “well they said they were going to do this” gets used to take a position to justify it. It is bizarre, given how much of a non-argument it usually is to say something’s permissibility is highly dependent upon if you were given a warning it was going to happen. (And this is coming from someone who supports what Apple did here.) The argument only works if the warning will lead to mitigating the harm so thoroughly that those negatively affected by the change have themselves to blame for failure to react to it. This is almost never the case when it comes to the kinds of changes in these debates.