Life existed before the iPhone. Life goes on even if you have to use other devices, and you'll be able to do more stuff than before iPhones were invented. ppl are very inventive and adaptable. Give Linux a try. Mint is a pretty good noob friendly version. Ubuntu is a very popular one.
//It’s like a double airlock. If your content never leaves your device, there’s no way for them to provide it to someone upon request.//
Except they just built themselves a way to get our data on our devices which very much does transfer our data.
//they tried to come up with a solution.//
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they decided to spy on us
^there I fixed it for you.
Making me total dictator would be a 'solution' too
I mean something has to be done nothing else is working or could possibly work. Me for dictator- I promise to be benevolent, who can argue with that. At worst it is a thing reasonable ppl can disagree about. /s
//No part of the encrypted content is ever sent to Apple.//
Except all the data before it is encrypted, if it matches the data Apple wants to see. And don't anyone dare say this is a backdoor. It just scans for arbitrary secret files a 3rd party is interested in, and sends out info whenever it finds something interesting. That is perfectly fine bc shiny Apple said so.
