This is quite unlike Apple. Is this the same company that insists on keeping its source proprietary and is always against FOSS? The idea that you care for your users' privacy and still like to keep control on them by not giving them the freedom to modify source-code is not what I buy.
Yeah. Loving your spouse and hiding things from them are also not mutually exclusive. Yet, you hardly find people that do both. Not to mention, this situation would never have arisen if iphone were open-sourced, since all activity would have been monitored by the community.
You have way too much faith into the the idea, that open source projects are free of backdoors / exploits and that the community can prevent creation of those. Aside from that, there is currently no platform, where 100% code is open source.
Of course we can't. But we are in a vastly better position to positivity affect these things if we do have the source.
It is immaterial whether or not any platform is currently 100% open source. rms_returns is right in noting the discrepancy between noble apple sticking it to the man and walled garden apple sticking it to the user.
