> seriously, anyone at this point advocating for any other phone/os/service out there besides apple is really going out of their way to swim up river.
Their software is not open source. Before this announcement you had to trust Apple not to look into the files you store in the cloud, now you have to trust that they're actually going to encrypt your files and not save the decryption key. Ultimately you still have to trust Apple.
A combination of any open source OS, any cloud provider and Cryptomator or Veracrypt wouldn't require as much trust in one company.
Their software is not open source. Before this announcement you had to trust Apple not to look into the files you store in the cloud, now you have to trust that they're actually going to encrypt your files and not save the decryption key. Ultimately you still have to trust Apple. A combination of any open source OS, any cloud provider and Cryptomator or Veracrypt wouldn't require as much trust in one company.