Almost seems like collusion.... It's like a self fulfilling prophecy. The more these idiots deny something and rage against it, the more guilty they end up being.
I'm going to assume they were under the impression that it would never happen because it would be mutually assured destruction for both sides. The problem they're facing now is that Jeff is already dead.
I wish the tech world would leave M$ behind. They are spreading their enshitification to everything they touch in order to stay dominant. Like requiring secure boot, because they care about our security, while also allowing 50 flavors of anti cheat/DRM software to fuck around in the kernel. Kick rocks Microsoft.
Their reputation amounts to them telling us that privacy is a human right but forgetting that the instant the Chinese government comes between Apple and money. Also if they were truly serious about security they would be open source. Like others have said, if the government wants a backdoor, they will get it no matter what apple says publicly because profits matter more than anything.
You have zero way of knowing that there aren't some level of backdoors. There's zero reason to think they wouldn't fold for the US govt like they did for the Chinese government. Lastly there is no high ground here for Apple. It's bad enough that they go above and beyond to dodge taxes and this is them doing more of that but in a somewhat more shameful way than normal. Fuck em.
I wish I had something to convert vector image formats to dxf. That's probably beyond the scope of this.