I think apple has high trust only because they repeat their message all the time.
However, just buy an apple device and try to use it. You cannot use it without apple allowing it. You must connect to apple and activate your device. And as part of activation, you get a chance to read apple's privacy policy. Literally thousands of pages of privacy policy without the ability to DO anything, like say "No". And everything in the os phones home, continuously.
If you are a european and disable location services, and use a european vpn, apple still won't let you use the european app store because the phone knows your location. sigh.
> apple still won't let you use the european app store because the phone knows your location.
The national app store you get to use (the region of your iphone) is based on your billing address + card details (which obviously are validated when you enter them), not your phone location.
I'm glad to hear you've never had anything stolen and aren't planning to have anything stolen in the future. That's a great plan and I'm kicking myself for not thinking of it myself. Oh and here's a great money saving tip: if you've never been in a car accident, don't waste your money on car insurance.
Nobody is forcing you to buy anything from Apple. I do buy Apple products fully aware of the relationship I'm entering into and I'm very happy with it. I consider activation lock to be a positive feature which increases the value of an iPhone for me. An article from 2015: https://techcrunch.com/2015/02/11/apples-activation-lock-lea...
Hopefully you don't get that upset when dozens of Apple's "features" are considered illegally anticompetitive and they're either forced to stop selling you products or change.
Your insurance analogy is proving the exact opposite. More apt analogy would be turning your cars wheels square because it might be stolen. I'd rather have the wheels roll though.
However, just buy an apple device and try to use it. You cannot use it without apple allowing it. You must connect to apple and activate your device. And as part of activation, you get a chance to read apple's privacy policy. Literally thousands of pages of privacy policy without the ability to DO anything, like say "No". And everything in the os phones home, continuously.
If you are a european and disable location services, and use a european vpn, apple still won't let you use the european app store because the phone knows your location. sigh.