So we start to see a glimmer of the real strategy - was it truly about protecting user's privacy or actually about monopolizing that privacy - establishing a mo

So we start to see a glimmer of the real strategy - was it truly about protecting user's privacy or actually about monopolizing that privacy - establishing a moat around it so that only Apple could extract the value? The problem is these strategies are indistinguishable until Apple decides to start the value extraction phase. But now we can start to see it beginning we can guess which one is the real underlying story in play and it doesn't look good.