> but it can be stopped if Apple care about their users. Apple cares about selling devices, maximizing revenue. Users are just something required to authorize

> but it can be stopped if Apple care about their users. Apple cares about selling devices, maximizing revenue. Users are just something required to authorize transactions. If Apple has to kowtow to the most oppressive regimes in the world to keep doing the above, you bet they will and probably already are. And since it is in the interest of both Apple + Gov't to do shady stuff in the dark, there is a good chance they can hide it the public indefinitely.