I'm certain 99% of those who switch to Android over this recent drama will un-ironically backup their photos in Google Cloud. Which, FYI, Google already does the same thing Apple is proposing, and has been for years.
Here's how the conversation goes:
Android User: "With Android I could just turn off Google Cloud"
iOS User: "Apple also only scans as part of iCloud upload process also. So just disable iCloud Photos"
Android User: "But that's a slippery slope! They COULD scan all content of the phone with no effort!"
iOS User: "But they're not currently, and don't plan to. Doing it locally makes it some-what auditable. Also their system as designed would only work for data uploaded to iCloud."
Android User: "So you TRUST Apple to just not add that capability later!? What if a government forces them to?"
iOS User: "So you trust Google not to aswell? If any Government forces Apple to add this on-device, they would certainly require the same of Android"
Android User: "But Apple COULD add it more easily, because this is clearly a backdoor!"
iOS User: "I don't think that word means what you think it means"
A list of banned content that lives on your phone sets a new and alarming precedent.
A list of banned content already exists on Facebook servers, and we have no way of auditing if that list only includes CP. Where's all the outrage over that?
The worry seems to boil down to; "they could CHANGE it in the future". If the concern is about the potential for a future system, then such concerns are infinite, since infinite new systems could always be proposed or deployed. I would rather conserve my outrage for that moment, rather than be the boy who cried wolf.
Though this certainly isn't an argument for apathy. I think the amount of push-back Apple is getting is probably healthy, even if it's hyperbolic.
This is simply not true. I have to assume you know that.