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Sort of but 1. You can still have an OS without an Apple ID, it just sucks 2. When you buy an Apple device, you did the research and know “the deal”. Microsoft doesn’t market devices that way, they want to work on every device and control it at the software level. 3. I trust Apple more, they are somewhat regularly in trouble for not giving out the keys to my data. When’s the last time Microsoft fought the FBI for access to a surface device ?

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> When’s the last time Microsoft fought the FBI for access to a surface device ?

Any company that has designed their security well doesn't have to fight the FBI because they have no data to give them. Apple's iCloud copies encryption keys for your data, giving Apple a backup decryption key that they can very easily give to any fed (and likely do already in FIVE-EYES/Chinese jurisdictions).

Private technology isn't dictated by relativism or dialectics. Treating your security like this is simply how you get hacked - I wouldn't trust Bitlocker or iCloud to protect my data because both are objectively backdoored. It doesn't matter how many San Bernadino publicity stunts the parent company arranges, you would look like a moron using this same line of logic to defend Microsoft or Google.

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