The more centralized you build a system, the easier it is to completely own.
Also, there's a massive confound in that Android phones come a lot cheaper than iPhones, making them far more accessible for the typical targets of active government surveillance.
Making sure the new locks fit all these old keys we have lying around, basically. Standard government cost saving measure.
In the US, the only one gets fingerprinted are by being arrested or for certain back ground checks( e.g ones for teachers, some bank employees, and security clearances).
In contrast, owning Apple would be a massive win.
But you're free to treat everything I say and do as an attempt to spy on me. How will that change your behavior? Or are you being deliberately obtuse for the sake of disrupting discussion?
Throwing the NSA thing at Apple is ridiculous frankly. It seems that the vast majority of tech companies were involved, including the likes of Google and all seemed to be far more embroiled is the sordid affair than Apple. So why are they more likely to be sharing stuff that anyone else? It's all very disingenuous from where I'm standing.
That is a valid counterstatement to the statement "Walled gardens make users more safe."
I can't see how that was obtuse. What part did you not understand?
Also, you've still not proven to me that you don't work for the NSA.
If you think that isn't a legitimate insight, or if you're so blazing-fast that you'd already made that inference, I suppose you're entitled to think that, but it's very difficult for most humans to re-compute all of their cached thoughts in the light of new information, and the NSA leaks aren't any different.