[cryu]

I should have made the scope of my comment more clear: the Google-bashing was internal.

I honestly could not care less what the marketing spin was; internally, we were being told things that we knew to be false.

I'm speaking specifically about the "absolute technical impossibility of providing certain information residing in the iDevice to anyone, even when the request was accompanied by a search warrant", which was the mantra circa 2014. The market differentiator was "we care about user privacy, in stark contrast with Google, who monetizes all data on their devices".

That was horseshit, as a specific security team regularly handled exactly those requests ... and heaven help you if you pointed that out in any discussion with management.

Things look a lot different from the inside.

(edit: s/piracy/privacy/)