I think the ultimate human cost of not providing free native, easy-to-use cryptographically secure communications apps on iOS is worse than the ideological batt

I think the ultimate human cost of not providing free native, easy-to-use cryptographically secure communications apps on iOS is worse than the ideological battle against Apple's idiotic walled garden. It's not just a threat against activists under oppressive regimes, it's a matter of "national security". Centralized chat services like WeChat [1] (developed by by Tencent in China) or WhatsApp [2] get more popular, the governments of the world will be able to intercept all private communication on a large scale. Although to be fair, privacy has been effectively dead pretty much worldwide for a while now. [1] http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1083025/hu-jia-explains-why-mobile-apps-make-activism-spooky http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1083025/hu-jia-exp... [2] http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/27897/can-an-employer-access-whatsapp-messages-if-you-are-using-their-servers http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/27897/can-an-emp...