Comment by xyst

People were mad. Remember the Snowden leaks and PRISM program from NSA? [1]

In fact, Apple began to adopt “privacy” first marketing due to this fallout. Apple even doubled down on this by not assisting FBI with unlocking a terrorist suspects Apple device in 2016. [2]

It was around that time I actually had _some_ respect for Apple. I was even a “Apple fanboy” for some time. But that respect and fanboi-ism was lost between 2019 and now.

Between the deterioration of the Apple ecosystem (shitty macOS updates), pushing scanning of photos and uploading to central server (CSAM scanning scandal?), the god awful “Apple wall”, very poor interoperability, and very anti-repair stance of devices.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants...

[2] https://money.cnn.com/2016/03/28/news/companies/fbi-apple-ip...