It's not amazing. If the regulatory and govt moves against apple succeed apple will be shipping devices with back door / root access for intercept purposes within months. The idea that the govt is going to do more to protect your privacy than apple is is a joke.

If you are the out group -> govt will be after you (depending on which administration is in power the out groups may change). I'm all for subpoena's and access to records, but there is a whole secondary national security letter / secret process you never get to challenge. And yes, there are agents harassing ex-girlfriends using their existing tools.

So what's amazing to some of us is that there are folks looking to gobble up whatever garbage is coming from the regulatory movements against apple.

There is a reason Apple get to charge so much. They are TRUSTED - trusted FAR FAR more than tump admin political appointees running DOJ / FTC etc despite the fact the govt spends trillions and should be most trusted player out there.

Heads up - look to australia to see govt "succeeding" - pretty soon we will all have to pay a mandatory murdoch license fee if the regulatory lovers get their way.