As someone who thinks Apple gets it mostly right and the EU is massively overreaching, I think there is a big disconnect between people like us who post on MacRumors and the general public.
If everyone in the general public was technically proficient I’d have fewer qualms in requiring everyone to open up. But Apple has over a billion iOS users. Most don’t know what they’re doing.
Just today I had to explain to my MIL that no, she didn’t have a Windows virus on her MacBook, and please under no circumstances call the number on the pop-up in Chrome that was displaying the Windows blue screen and “your computer has been infected - call Microsoft to remove”. She seriously thought she had somehow gotten a virus and needed to call “Microsoft.” I seriously suspect she is significantly closer to the average user than us arguing about API access.
I also suspect most users won’t understand that by clicking things like “display notifications on my Meta sunglasses” means that Meta will potentially see the content Of all notifications and be able to sell ads against them.
TLDR: I honestly and truly think Apple has a significantly lower privacy and security threat tolerance than most people posting on MacRumors - and I’d argue theirs is much more realistic than the EU’s.
I know reasonable people can disagree on that, but it’s how I feel.
