And my silly young ass back in the 90s thought “Dude, the future will be so AWESOME!”… If I could punch my young self, I would.

I do not trust apple a single second, that they do not have their own backdoors in their OS. I can’t prove it, but I bet they scan their customers just as much as google does. They just say they don’t to justify their horrendous prices AND milk them for marketing purposes. Double-wammy.