I think apple superfan Gruber's idea on it is actually pretty good balance: https://daringfireball.net/2017/07/apple_china_vpn_apps https://daringfireball.net/

I think apple superfan Gruber's idea on it is actually pretty good balance: https://daringfireball.net/2017/07/apple_china_vpn_apps https://daringfireball.net/2017/07/apple_china_vpn_apps Don't make yourself the single point of failure that the Chinese government could apply pressure on in the first place. Make iCloud backups actually encrypted fully. They know they are being induced to do these things, they have competitors (android) that have options to mitigate these things (side loading, actual encrypted backups) , but they don't do it for honestly suspicious or greedy reasons at this point, despite saying they're all about 'privacy' on bilboards.