You don't need to "believe a person on the internet", just go look up all of the privacy-respecting features and options of iOS (and related services) we have t

You don't need to "believe a person on the internet", just go look up all of the privacy-respecting features and options of iOS (and related services) we have today. I think "contractual obligations" sounds like an unfairly high standard to hold Apple to. It'd be great if we lived in a utopia where corporations were genuinely looking out for our best interests. We don't. We live in a world where corporations are relentless profit-seeking vampires, and in that world Apple is an uncommonly benevolent mega-corp relative to its peers. This benevolence is not just a factor of being mostly built by morally "good" people[0], it's also a matter of what Apple has chosen as its market niche. They build privacy-first technology because that's what they tell us they're selling us, and it's why we buy it. It's profitable for them. It's good for us. It's a mutually beneficial situation. [0]I think there's an argument to be made that because Apple has now spent a decade positioning itself this way, it probably attracts the type of employee who believes in privacy as a human right and is largely made up of people who genuinely do believe it's the "right" thing to do.