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I don't believe it's intentional for the reason you mentioned. Although it could theoretically be like that for plausible deniability, Apple's reputation is definitely more valuable than one patchable backdoor of god knows how many others. But debug backdoor is still a backdoor.

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Intentional doesn't mean Apple approved. It could be a couple of compromised employees on the right teams.

Very large companies are definitely at the mercy of governments. Just look at how they are bending over backwards to comply with DMA etc. So, it is not at all inconceivable that they are forced to put backdoors into their product by the governments.

>Very large companies are definitely at the mercy of governments.

Thankfully! At least in a democracy, the government is chosen, megacorps are accountable to no one else.

Except Apple is known for having very publicly fought the FBI’s attempt to force a backdoor into iOS.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple–FBI_encryption_dispute

That’s true. On the other hand, Apple isn’t some kind of Borg like swarm intelligence. While Apple’s upper management doesn’t want back doors in their products, someone in middle management might have come to a different opinion.

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