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I'm also surprised that this is the thing that gets people up in arms about iPhones. I mean, you can't even write legitimate application for yourself and run it on your own phone without insane hoops to jump through. Not to mention that you can't buy an iPhone and decide to change the OS or whatever with the hardware, even if Apple stops supporting it.

I have no issue with people who give of very very basic user freedom because they want to opt into the iOS "ecosystem", but I don't see how this particular thing would push anyone of the ledge.

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Simple, the line that was crossed is scanning your local files versus scanning cloud files (even though they promise this system is disabled if you disabled icloud photos.)

Once this system is in place, it takes only 1 tiny adjustment/exploit to scan other private stuff on your devices, which you would never upload to a cloud.

> it takes only 1 tiny adjustment/exploit to scan other private stuff on your devices

This has always been true, there's no "Once this system is in place" qualifier necessary. This is the reality of running someone else's proprietary code at the root level on your device.

I respectfully disagree :) that's black/white thinking, by that reasoning all software not inspected by yourself, and having some automated update system, can be considered unsafe. The world is not just black and white...

> scanning your local files versus scanning cloud files

Correction, scanning cloud destined files, as a step of the upload pipeline. Local files not destined for the cloud are not scanned. It's a scan happening before the network stack of the pipeline, rather than after. But it still is already in the pipeline, an its way, at the point of scan (at least that's my understanding of their docs).

The real percentage of people who would care to do either of those two things is infinitesimally small. Not non-existant, just very small compared to:

All HN users in this thread < All tech journalists who are writing about this topic < All iPhone users

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