[nerdjon]

I could have sworn apple even straight up said that was their goal?

Maybe I am just misremembering since like you I figured that was the reason they were doing it, no other reason to do something like that if it was all going too sit there unencrypted.

[gjsman-1000]

No, they didn't say anything like that at the time, so I was even downvoted on HN and argued with for making the suggestion. Because Apple was definitely just being evil and had no bigger picture.