It is an interesting counter-point to Apple's previously selling itself as the only company to respect your privacy. This kinda flies in the face of that excep

It is an interesting counter-point to Apple's previously selling itself as the only company to respect your privacy. This kinda flies in the face of that except for the fact it's wrapped in, as you said, "common good" goals. I've never been Apple, but I'm currently attempting to migrate to a LineageOS daily-driver mobile, although I still require some amount (nano) of Google to get by. Ironically, I needed a Windows machine to do this, whilst I'm already almost exclusively Linux (Ubuntu and Pop!_OS).