> I really think this is the wrong attitude (…). Having access to data on our devices should be a given.
I don’t get your post. You quote a part to disagree with but everything after that agrees with it. I did say you should have access to your data. I did not say you should have DRM, or that your data should exist in the cloud, or that you should have to access it through an API. I also said “feels to me the correct solution in this case is”. In this case where we are discussing personal, private, possibly sensitive conversations. That has nothing to do with downloaded music, purchased or pirated.
> the result of boiling frogs.
That’s a myth¹, but it wouldn’t apply anyway. I don’t agree with Apple’s decision in the case you presented, but I do agree with it in the other instance. It isn’t incongruent to believe you should have access to your data while also believing it should be reasonably protected from snooping bad actors.
¹ From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog: “While some 19th-century experiments suggested that the underlying premise is true if the heating is sufficiently gradual, according to modern biologists the premise is false: changing location is a natural thermoregulation strategy for frogs and other ectotherms, and is necessary for survival in the wild. A frog that is gradually heated will jump out. Furthermore, a frog placed into already boiling water will die immediately, not jump out.”