Maybe ‘end to end’ means different things to different companies
An option to pre-load new devices with the users data won’t be available, but Gurman says it was in the works for a while.
He says it would have been called a “white-glove component,” and if the user opted into it, it would have arrived “preloaded with all of your data via your iCloud backup.”
Since the title doesn’t mention the feature in question, it’s having a device delivered to you with your iCloud data preloaded with it.
that’s really a pointless feature, since it doesn’t really take all that long to load the data yourself…
That doesn’t sound so sinister.
This post bears the marks of manufactured outrage. Not required; we have plenty of real outrage.
It’s Apple…
Not everyone with an iPhone is tech illiterate, but everyone who is tech illiterate has an iPhone
Those people might think that the only way for their data to get from one phone to another, is them typing a password onto the phone physically.
If they were offered this, they may realize that Apple could just clone their phone and everything on it.
Don’t forget how many social media savvy young celebrities had nudes leak a few years ago because they were iPhone users and iphones back everything up to the cloud by default. Most users most likely never realize that’s happening.
