You could ship a mechanism that scans your documents but doesn't report anything. Or do something equally pointless, but just as signally. I feel like so many

You could ship a mechanism that scans your documents but doesn't report anything. Or do something equally pointless, but just as signally. I feel like so many of these unstoppable force meets immovable wall situations warp both functionality and discourse (on all sides) on said functionality. This comes about because everything is getting so centralized. The government wants to be in everything, and Apple (stand in for all big tech) does too. This pits them against each other, with the consumer only acknowledged when there is vast consumer agreement and motivation. Similar to App Store, Apple wants total control, then governments use Apple's control to cut of access to particular apps. Consumers that understand the severe loss of freedom this creates (for them and developers) both immediate and in lost innovation don't like it. But there isn't a huge consumer uproar on that one ... so freedom wilts. Bundling these basic features (cloud backups, app stores) with operating systems is creating an unholy government/platform axis that wins every time consumers are unable to drum up the motivation to speak as coherent allies pushing back.