Seems more are increasingly arriving at that conclusion.

I have a post coming on the good & the ugly of their decisions, but I first plan to share some solutions before dunking on Apple. They seem to be both raising people's awareness to privacy being of importance, whilst at the same time hijacking the narrative and being "economical with the truth" around the level of data collection & government access. Certainly not saints, but they are also not so net-negative as their peers in Microsoft and Google seem to be these days.

Hopefully FOSS can compete on functionality and features, not just privacy protection to topple Apple's influence. I'm optimistic ~nostr will create the "better-verse" eventually.