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.
> 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...
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.
> 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...
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.
> you get constantly spammed to subscribe to things on iOS.
Ad companies are the worst