Apple

The part you are wrong about is where you think people are smart enough to understand this. They are not. Full stop. They just aren't. They're shortsighted, emotional, and naive. They will only cry about how it's bullshit that their phone scans their photos, when it becomes reality. Right now they think they can have some centralized authority that controls what features must be in a phone, but somehow prevent that authority from using that power against them. That is stupid. They cannot answer the question "how are you going to feel when the EU mandates an unpopular change?" -- that you asked of them. They can't answer it because they simply think it won't happen.

Most people do not understand, or refuse to accept, the reality that there are tradeoffs to every decision. Yes it is annoying that Apple won't open their walled garden. Yes it is obnoxious that I need to pay $100 a fucking year just to write an app to use on my own goddamn phone. That pisses me off. But if the alternative is letting the government MANDATE that I am allowed to install that app, I'll pass. Because I know the next mandate will be an app I very much do not want.

I look forward to when we have no legal encryption anymore. People will blame left wingers, right wingers, capitalists, communists, anyone but themselves.

Hope USB-C and sideloading is worth it.