Comment by wrs

1 day ago

> how can you “pull” E2E encryption without data loss

You can’t. The article says if you don’t disable it (which you have to do yourself, they can’t do it for you, because it’s E2E), your iCloud account will be canceled.

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nashashmi  1 day ago

At this point, the right thing to do is allow for an alt-service.

  • jmb99  18 hours ago

    How would an alt service help this situation? You’d just end up with backdoored services advertising E2EE, no? Apple’s move here is definitely the right one, introduce as much friction as possible to hopefully get the user pissed off at their government for writing such stupid laws.

    • NitpickLawyer  14 hours ago

      > introduce as much friction as possible to hopefully get the user pissed off at their government for writing such stupid laws.

      I'm actually surprised that they didn't add more direct text in that screen. "We are unable to provide this service... BECAUSE OF YOUR GOVERNMENT 1984 STYLE REQUESTS. Contact your MPs here and here and oh, here's their unlocked icloud data, might want to add some choice pictures to their stash..." would have been a tad more on the nose...

  • sneak  1 day ago

    Apple has an organization-wide mandate for services revenue.

    Every product must make money on an ongoing basis, every month. That's why you get constantly spammed to subscribe to things on iOS.

    Apple will never drop this anticompetitive practice of favoring their services until they are legally compelled to.