It is curious that particular notion keeps getting repeated ad nauseam given it makes zero sense. It's coming exclusively from Apple fans desperate to give the

It is curious that particular notion keeps getting repeated ad nauseam given it makes zero sense. It's coming exclusively from Apple fans desperate to give them the benefit of the doubt on this rather epic implosion of Apple's brand when it comes to privacy. So many people hooked themselves up to the Apple-is-pro-privacy wagon. They invested into the ecosystem across the board. They've been swimming in Apple's products & services pool for years or decades. Apple just went from hero to maybe villain on privacy. So now many of those people that are getting screwed over by Apple are going to be emotional about it, irrational about it, in denial about it. It won't be used nefariously in the future. It won't be expansive, it'll remain the very limited program they say it is today. It won't be abused around the world by authoritarian governments. One of the greatest potential surveillance tools ever deployed and it won't be rampantly abused by the world's most powerful governments and agencies (all of which are hungry to spy on their citizens and or other nation's citizens). Yeah right.