Ah yes, a chip from the nation with the most advanced hackin’ prowess pretty much in the world, who have developed and deployed zero click self-covering iPhone root exploits that could just be texted to someone to activate. Exactly where I want my chips to be made! Absolutely no chance at a backdoor there.

(I critique this as a long-time iOS user…)

Great; does it blow up in my pants if I say something remotely pro-Gaza?

can i get the iphone without the literally exploding back door

Switch to a Fairphone with /e/os. Ethically sourced components, replaceable parts. Privacy focused OS. No built-in Google dependencies.

And the homescreen looks and behaves much like iOS.

It's what I'm using right now.

All the major non-Chinese CPU developers (Intel, AMD, Arm and Apple) have chip design engineers in Israel. This has been going on for a long time (the Intel 8087 numeric coprocessor, from around 1980, was designed in Israel, and has the engineer’s Hebrew initials on the die).

How is this not satire? This is suppose to be satire.

I’m sticking with an SE3 running iOS 17 until it’s completely irreparable and then I’m leaving the Apple ecosystem for good.

Because of the Trump support, I pledged to only buy secondhand Apple hardware so Apple didn’t get any more money from me. Before that, I cut all Apple services including paid iCloud because of Hong Kong.

You did it, Tim Cook, you made me hate the best computers and devices I’ve ever used.

Of course they are. Game knows game, and evil knows evil.

The people who brought you the disaster that is iOS 26, say hold my beer and watch this.

Globally sourced thing is globally sourced.