I think they’re trying to move more and more features to be done on-device rather than rely on the cloud to do it. This made people think that their iPhone is spying on them and I disagree. Can they use it for other things, probably, but that remains to be seen.
We as the consumers, pretty much have to believe everything they say is true or else we would never use their hardware/software.
When Apple says disabling Siri means the phone isn’t listening anymore, we pretty much have to believe them. When Apple says that location data isn’t shared with them, we assume they’re telling the truth. When they say they’re not looking at your photos in the cloud, we assume they aren’t. There are a TON of things they COULD technically do, but we shouldn’t get hung up on that, but instead wait for evidence that they’re lying to us, because until that happens, we’re just speculating and getting paranoid for no reason.
