> Apple is very intrusive. Macos phones home all the time.
The platform is heavily internet-integrated, and I would expect it to periodically hit Apple servers. There are a lot of people claiming to be security researchers reporting what Little Snitch told them. There are drastically fewer who would introspect packets and look for any gathered telemetry.
I really haven't seen evidence Apple is abusing their position here.
> Everything goes to icloud by default. I've gotten new devices and boom, it's uploading everything to iCloud.
You need to enable iCloud. You are prompted.
Also, a new device should have next to nothing to upload to iCloud, as its hard disk is still in the factory configuration.
> I think apple should allow a personal you-have-all-your-data iCloud
They have desktop backup. Maybe they should allow third party backup Apps on iPhone, although I suspect data would be encrypted and blinded to prevent abuses by third parties, and recovery would be challenging because today recovery is only possible on a known-state filesystem. The recovery aspect is what really has limited it to the handful of approaches implemented directly by Apple.
The platform is heavily internet-integrated, and I would expect it to periodically hit Apple servers. There are a lot of people claiming to be security researchers reporting what Little Snitch told them. There are drastically fewer who would introspect packets and look for any gathered telemetry.
I really haven't seen evidence Apple is abusing their position here.
> Everything goes to icloud by default. I've gotten new devices and boom, it's uploading everything to iCloud.
You need to enable iCloud. You are prompted.
Also, a new device should have next to nothing to upload to iCloud, as its hard disk is still in the factory configuration.
> I think apple should allow a personal you-have-all-your-data iCloud
They have desktop backup. Maybe they should allow third party backup Apps on iPhone, although I suspect data would be encrypted and blinded to prevent abuses by third parties, and recovery would be challenging because today recovery is only possible on a known-state filesystem. The recovery aspect is what really has limited it to the handful of approaches implemented directly by Apple.