Apple painted itself into corner by refusing to do iCloud scanning to maintain its differentiated stance compared to its competitor, so the only way it COULD co

Apple painted itself into corner by refusing to do iCloud scanning to maintain its differentiated stance compared to its competitor, so the only way it COULD comply with government pressure is to do the scanning at device level. Except, that turns out to be a whole lot more intrusive and unpalatable for people because the surveillance is taking placing on a device the user paid for and thereby expect higher level of privacy than what is stored on a cloud. Apple is stuck between rock and a hard place. They don't want to be like Google or MS, but their solution is worse from public's perspective. Optics aren't looking so great at this point, because they are also dragging Google and MS through the mud by effectively saying, "Well, they've been doing it too!"