Comment by WhackyIdeas

It’s kind of simple imo. Apple is an American company and after Jobs died, Apple quickly signed up to working with the NSA and enrolled in the Prism programme.

Apple, like any other USA company, has to abide by the laws and doing what they are told to do. If that means hardware backdoors, software backdoors, or giving NSA a heads up over a vulnerability during the time it takes to fix said vulnerability (to give time for NSA to make good use of it) then they will.

Only someone with great sway (like Jobs) could have resisted something like this without fear of the US Govt coming after him. His successor either didn’t have that passion for privacy or the courage to resist working with the NSA.

Anyone, anywhere with an iPhone will be vulnerable to NSA being able to break into their phone anytime they please, thanks to Apple. And with Apple now making their own silicon, the hardware itself will be even more of a backdoor.

Almost every single staff member at Apple will be none the wiser about this obv and unable to do anything about it even if they did - and their phones will be just as fair game to tap whenever the spies want.

I am speculating. But in my mind, it’s really quite obvious. Just like how Prism made me win an argument I had with someone who was a die hard Apple fan and thought they would protect privacy at all costs… 6 months later, Snowden came along and won me that argument.