Of course Apple and other phones spy on you why do you think the state allows us to have such devices without a license? It gives them a billion personal spies. Did you/we NOT listen to Edward Snowden? As soon as mobile phones, and other similar products, gained sufficient compute power on chip/on device to review our emails, photos, notes, recordings, location or tracking data, or listen to our phone calls for keywords/intention expression all WITHOUT high data transfer requirements that this would have needed in the OLD days to stream info to a central processing facility that is exactly what they do.
The state loves these capabilities, and more, that we can only imagine in our nightmares.
Apple expends a LOT of effort to stop unapproved OS's being installed so do not hold your breath for an open source OS.
Expect to hear a lot of justifications eg finding drug dealers, peado's, weirdos, terrorists, people smugglers etc but who is the bigger threat? Could it be uncontrolle, unjustified state surveillance? When will the line be crossed and how can we put the deep state back under control?
