Apple needs to have two versions of iOS, & sell their phones with a choice for users. One phone is iOS as is, with perhaps even more security baked-in. The other is open, Wild West like so many here are demanding. The kicker is that the version on the phone cannot be changed to the other: the Wild West phone has to be regarded as compromised from the start, & Apple can easily market it that way. "They're both the same great phone. But you can only trust one of them." Let the market decide. I'm pretty sure which way consumers would decide, a direction which would in no way please the state actors looking to get a toehold on the data in every iPhone. [Edited typo]
Who's the "you" in "you can trust"? If it's the DRM assholes looking for remote attestation and other ways to take ownership away from device owners, then that's an amazing outcome in my mind.
If you're implying that device owners can no longer trust their own devices, that's a weak argument that 50+ years of PC (emphasis on the "personal") industry can help invalidate.
