But it gives you access to almost none of your actual files

So exactly which of “your actual files” do you need access to?

The Files app cannot access images in the Photos app or music in the Music app. The only way to add music to the Music app is to copy the files onto the iPhone from a computer. You can however install VLC player and copy the files into the VLC folder. I guess VLC player is more trustworthy than Apple Music considering it's less isolated. Or Apple really wants you to pay the Music subscription, who knows. Want to give another app access to these files? You'll have to duplicate them, using up more storage space.

I get that it's supposedly about security, but this is not the only secure way. It is however the most convenient secure way for Apple, as now the only simple method of backing up and syncing files through all those isolated containers is iCloud.

That’s a fair point. I was expecting the typical HN geek answer that you can’t access system files on iOS and you don’t have root access

Is that typical? I've seen complaints about lack of root access, and complaints that apps don't work with files in folders, but I haven't really seem them conflated the way you're describing.

How would most people know what works best? Most people are only using one.

Why not? I've used it between my desktops and my phone with no problem for years.

How is that a solution? These attacks would just tell you to install terminal if you don't already have it.

That would help a little no?

Let's hope you never wind up in the massive email history of a terrible person because people like you will wish you dead.

If I end up in the massive email history of one of the most vile men in US history, please flush me down the toilet assuming I haven't already heavily invested in the Remington retirement plan

Then be careful to never do anything that is interesting enough or important enough that it will become newsworthy, or write any books or articles on interesting or important topics, or even posting helpful things on social media.

There are a lot of people in Epstein's email history who are there because the above kinds of things caught his interest, and he wanted to discuss or recommend them to others.

Sorry sheikh, busy opening windows in Moscow.

Best I can do is drown you in a bathroom sink around February 2029, not getting dirty toilet water on my good shoes again.

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Which is why I never us a phone that requires me to have certain apps installed.

You can uninstall almost all of Apple's apps now. Even things like the clock and the calendar. Not sure why the parent chose to leave News installed.

It can't be uninstalled on Sonoma I am using.

No, but they can tie it to the consideration of software and services contracts which has the same effect.

Well, both are 100 pct in the pocket so the only possible answer is a third entity which is highly unlikely.

I don't think it's outright corruption so much as quid quo pro. Think about PRISM and other such things. US tech companies operate globally, hoover up a vast amount of personal information, and pass it all right along to the US intelligence agencies.

So the more intrusive and vast these companies become, the more the US intelligence apparatus gains from it. Polls consistently there's extremely high levels of concern about what companies are doing what people's information, and we have a million 'real life' privacy laws. The complete absence of anything meaningful on the digital front, from either party, is highly conspicuous.

This is a very reasonable take. No idea why this has been downvoted, besides possible the hordes of (ex-)big tech employees here who just can't come to terms with their (ex-)employers being about as ethical as those they like to think of as beneath them.

Biden appointed Lina Khan. "Both parties are the same" is lazy and unhelpful.

It's wiser to judge the parties by actions rather than rhetoric. From both parties there has been complete absence of meaningful action on the issue, even though both have regularly cycled through complete control of government with majorities in the house and senate while also holding the presidency.

Both parties have sued Alphabet and won a major case, although the outcome isn't ideal.

Meta and Apple have also been sued by both parties for monopolistic behavior.

The Bell system was broken up primarily for being the largest telephony operator while also being the largest seller of telephones. Microsoft, prior to PRISM and modern weirdness, initially lost an antitrust case over bundling Internet Explorer with Windows that could have led to their breakup.

Modern stuff has gone so absurdly far beyond these, with anticompetitive behavior essentially being the core of their entire businesses, that you'd think we're living under a completely new legal system. We are not, take Alphabet or Meta back to AT&T's era, and they'd be broken up on summary judgement.

Saying that I said both parties are the same is far lazier.

How else should we interpret "both parties are 100% in the pocket"?

You even conveniently quantified it for us so that there's no confusion that you're saying they're exactly the same.

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Those jobs don't scale at all so you can't have the ability for the top .001 pct make significant money