Please quote anything that comes close to OS-level spying for developer benefit. When did it become acceptable to fake source by posting just a link and no context? I read through several of the sections and not a single one indicates you can get significant information outside your own app. Again, I am not claiming Apple is benevolent. I was reasonably clear that they should be criticized for the many unethical things they do engage in.

In fact, none of what you said directly confronts anything I mentioned. I’d need more than vague innuendos to change my stance on what is, again, reputation ending and unprecedented spying for the benefit of small time companies.

Also recall that Apple employees have leaked completely uninteresting things for twitter clout, leading to firings and legal action. You cannot claim with a straight face that employees will leak that but not OS-level spying. They’re bound by the same NDAs but are willing to face jail time to leak information about the next iPhone and not this? Remember that NDAs are not magic documents with 100% effectiveness.

And that’s just Apple employees. Individual developers can leak. A software dev at Google (king of advertising) being laid off for shareholder value can leak.

These conspiracy theories always play to the same desire to feel like the believers and their fellow theorists are the only ones who haven’t had the wool pulled over their eyes by some borderline omnipotent organization moving in the shadows. Only the special few know the truth; though they cannot prove it, they know it to be true. And these all fall apart at the foundation: plausibility. To save time, I won’t respond if you can’t provide direct quotes or real evidence that realistically suggest Apple tracks keyboard strokes to deliver ad opportunities to third party developers— implications and leaps of logic need not apply. This reminds me too much of flat earthers, and while I do enjoy reading this stuff, it’s not productive to either person to engage too much. I wouldn’t want to waste your time. Stay safe out there!

(Feel free to respond with the innuendos anyway though, I will read it for fun. I just won’t respond if there’s no real evidence. For inspiration, think past basic ads and consider the limitless potential for US government or Chinese government spying with real time keystroke tracking, and how that is potentially connected to seasonal Covid rate spikes or military plane flight patterns. Maybe they add to Covid numbers when iOS users type “let’s eat the rich next week” too many times?)