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>>zdw+(OP)
Somehow Apple maintains this perception that they make money on the hardware and therefore are trustworthy because they don't have any interests hostile to their users.

But when you look at what's really happening it's clear - they have a highly hostile interest to their users - they want to lock them into the ecosystem and then rent seek like crazy on services that their users have almost no choice but to buy.

This is why I love Apple products but I only buy the open ones that leave me choice to do what I want - which pretty much means I'm only buying Macbooks these days.

>>zmmmmm+z7
Walled Garden is marketing speak. Walled Prison is the reality.

Its always been like this, but I don't think their target demographic cares. I remember 10 years ago I heard something like: "Iphone, the phone your mom uses." Not that its accurate. Blows my mind VIPs use iphones after Pegasus.. How could these people be so unaware?

>>PlatoI+x8
iPhones, particularly with the advanced security/hardening turned on are light years in front of Android devices for protection against advanced/sophisticated actors. Which is why VIPs use iPhones.

Apple responded to Pegasus with Lockdown Mode, which is probably the most hardcore security modality that's ever shipped in mass produced consumer hardware.

>>msy+T9
People have been getting zero-click hacked on iPhones by Israeli malware now also in use by ICE, even recently. I don't blame Apple too much given what they're up against, but zero-clicks are the worst thing possible.

[0] https://www.securityweek.com/paragon-graphite-spyware-linked...

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/eff-statement-ice-use-...

>>deaux+pW
If your threat model is a nation state instead of the assholes on a push bike that steals your phone out your hand, you already have other problems.

>>jen20+kZ
Are androids getting "assholes on a push bike" to hack their phone? No.

Are androids getting "a nation state" to hack their phone? No.

Its objectively worse security to have an iphone.

>>PlatoI+Gn1
Objectively it is not. You appear to be living in a parallel reality!