<i>“Apple's privacy is just marketing smoke and mirrors”</i> — an HN commenter, probably<p>For every privacy feature Apple advertise to consumers about, there are ten they didn't, that still very much raise the bar.<p>The quiet improvements are so under-marketed that even technically savvy users aren't aware of most of them.<p>There was a period before MDM matured that certain three letter U.S. Gov agencies forbade iPhones. Not because they were insecure, but because the agency's infosec team couldn't surveil the devices or break in to do a data dump if the employee was under investigation.<p>Certainly, they still have zero days, and vulns dating back longer than anyone would like. So it's interesting what's happening to iOS use of C: <a href="https://blog.timac.org/2023/1019-state-of-swift-and-swiftui-ios17/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.timac.org/2023/1019-state-of-swift-and-swiftui-...</a>