[shuckles]

> If Apple had supported open iCloud alternatives for backup and other services from day one, it woudn't even be a discussion now.

You think the OS vendor is unable to snoop on data written to 3rd party clouds from their devices?

[SXX]

If they leave backdoors they will eventually be known.

[Someone]

Chances are the UK government would require them to create that backdoor for them, and Apple would publicize that (implicitly, if the UK government would also forbid them to tell it explicitly)