Comment by KerrAvon
1 month ago
No, it is not. Whatever their other failings, Apple doesn’t think that way.
The cynical reason: consider that you can’t plan engineering features of this scale without written documentation, which will always surface in court.
The prima facie reason: Apple genuinely wants to provide useful features requiring server participation.
This is incredibly naive and curiously defensive.
If this was a feature on its own then it would not be popular.
Citing national security, some danger will justify its existence.
Apple alone does not control and dictate what goes in, once you reach their level of size and wealth that exceed even developed countries, you ultimately cannot be the controller of your destiny purely as a profit orientated corporation.
ex) Meta, Microsoft, Google