What they got very very wrong is the idea that spyware running on the user's device is the most privacy preserving way to scan for illegal content hosted on the

What they got very very wrong is the idea that spyware running on the user's device is the most privacy preserving way to scan for illegal content hosted on their servers. Apple has not announced E2EE for files stored on iCloud. If that is their intent, they likely would have had a somewhat improved public response by announcing it at the same time as the on-device spyware.