[Swordmaker]

Apple could just make a “corporate edition” OS with a backdoor.

I predict this will be the solution. Private phones won’t have it.

Incrementalism, I believe it’s called.

There are no two levels of access. The enterprise, corporate edition WANTS the security of no backdoor. . . just as individuals do. Make one, then the crooks would steal individuals' iPhones and install corporate backdoored versions and access the private data of the individuals. Nope, wouldn't work.

[Talisker]

There are no two levels of access. The enterprise, corporate edition WANTS the security of no backdoor. . . just as individuals do. Make one, then the crooks would steal individuals' iPhones and install corporate backdoored versions and access the private data of the individuals. Nope, wouldn't work.

While I'm far more cynical than you about what a corporation wants, I do agree that mere back-installation of the backdoor OS would negate any separate usage of the systems, and such a strategy would multiply at light speed around the world once such an OS was created. So yeah, it wouldn't work.