Natanael

Read again - for most other devices there are cheap and often some free administration tools that small businesses can use. And for many devices they can just reinstall them. But for Apple devices pretty much everything is expensive or very limited.

~~Extremely expected for a company that used to be all on in NFTs~~

It was a small company, as he said elsewhere, negating your first 4 options, and the last two of blaming the user are equally stupid because Apple can fix this and doesn't want to. Not everybody has an MDM tool which can set up ownership right for Apple devices - and they should not have to

It's shameful that you have a bunch of upvotes and he's getting downvotes

You should finish reading the part where the company owned the device.

IT was the owner and obviously consented to their own actions.

You didn't read the post.

You pretty much MUST use paid mobile device management tools to set up and administer company owned Apple hardware, and those tools are notoriously annoying and often just bad

Android uses similar storage encryption (and you can activate encryption for an SD card if you have sensitive data on it), the encryption key is protected by a TPM or Secure Element chip or by ARM TrustZone or equivalent, it checks that the OS is unmodified before booting and the chip only gives the key to the CPU if the user enters the correct PIN

If you aren't using the iOS lockdown mode, it's not really that much more private. Most stuff is still not encrypted in iCloud without that on, and apps can still track much of what you do, and Apple has their own ad networks.

Edit: has any of the downvoters actually read Apple's (public!) security architecture documents?

I feel like recreating my account as a local one for this reason. I hate not having control over the filesystem and hate not having a normal looking username

They have silently switched stuff on by default before

Define "new security measures"

But it has to be clearly presented. Consumer law and defamation law has different requirements on disclaimers

In Canada there was a company using an LLM chatbot who had to uphold a claim the bot had made to one of their customers. So there's precedence for forcing companies to take responsibility for what their LLMs says (at least if they're presenting it as trustworthy and representative)