> this is a black pattern of going down step-by-step.
This is very hard to argue. Functionality like spying all your files is trivial to add, and technically we haven't really moved anywhere. "Now technology is there", is not valid argument since it has always been there.
Scanning your files and send some metadata is the feature which requires least effort to make from everything that Apple has released.
It might feel bad, when your device scans your to-be-uploaded-cloud images now, but iOS has never been yours. It is very closed system, a part of Apple-ecosystem. Only a guy who as has access for whole iOS source code knows what is actually happening in there. On Apple-ecosystem, only the final result matters in reality and what they say.
Since your device is not really yours, you should think like that you are just using Apple-ecosystem, being part of it. If you don't want that, you should have switched into some Linux phone already.
You can speculate all-day what else it might do in hidden in the future. Speculation about hidden features is as valid now as it was yesterday or will be tomorrow.
In reality, we can only be really worried when they publicly say something, which finally makes the end results worse. This did not happen yet. Actually the opposite happened, but here we go.
We have been trusting Apple for quite some time, and they really haven't got caught on doing something else than they have said, so what has changed?
I agree we should do so! That said, we should discourage behavior that is absolutely guaranteed to be abusive in the future.
We can call it speculation - that doesn't mean it's wrong. Power is the play, and companies will always be leveraged for the benefit of the powerful. This seems pretty indisputable to me.
I agree and my first statement was this is bad. My point was why has no one been complaining about it already being very bad and reacting with "I'm selling all iDevices" when it gets worse?
When it will be when people will say no? These are all small steps only.