You need to realize that Apple is not your friend. They are part of the cabal. They have proven that they are indeed evil and with evil intent. And you are supporting this evil.
Wake up!
As for me, I will continue to listen to Braxman. You need to too. Is Android and Google any better. Heck no, but at least their product is “public domain” and visible and can be monitored inspected.
An Apple use can have Apple SEND THEM what files Apple retains on them… I have done that and looked to see what they have on file. What they have is totally innocuous.
You can also look to see what Google and Facebook keeps their users. I’ve done that also and the amount of data that they keep is hundreds of times LARGER than what Apple retains on its customers and Google and Facebook SELL THAT DATA TO THIRD PARTIES. With them, YOUR INFORMATION AND DATA ARE THEIR PRODUCTS! Yet you claim a false equivalency between Apple and them????!!! You are delusional!
Apple has data, anonymized, and yes, they can pull out individualized and identified data if they were interested in individual data. But as Brahman points out EVERY smart device maker and carrier can do this. The difference is that Google and Facebook DOES THIS as a business model to monetize that information. Apple does not.
So the question arises, if you are going to use a desktop or handheld computer with those abilities: whom you trust more with that power, a company which does everything it can to limit the distribution of data it’s entrusted with and to secure your privacy on your devices, or companies which mine your data a sell them to everyone with money to buy it and in addition find sneaky ways to steal even more data from your secure devices?
The only other choice is to disconnect entirely, find a hole, and pull that hole in after you.
I recognize that Apple has become far more vile under Tim Cook than it ever was under Steve Jobs, but it is nowhere near the vileness of Google, Facebook, or YouTube. Microsoft is somewhere on the spectrum between Apple and those. . . Just more incompetent. Android is a tool of Google.
It’s you that needs to WAKE UP, DHS12345!