Comment by slg
4 years ago
> Saying that just because they could have, we ought to be okay with them actually doing it is nonsense. If you apply that line of thought to a non-updatable product, it becomes pretty clear.
That is not the argument I made. The argument was that if they could be corrupted we should assume they are already corrupted. And since they already have control over the device an already corrupted Apple could have been spying on you already. It isn’t excusing their behavior. It is pointing out the naïveté of the current outrage.
Perhaps you are right that the outrage should have come much earlier. I myself avoided Apple since a long time. However, it's better late than never. I'm glad people are finally waking up.
See also: https://stallman.org/apple.html and https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/apple.