As Apple & Samsung(an ally) falls in slow motion behind Huawei soon behind Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo - Chinese intelligence gets a strong advantage against US Intelligence in backdooring. So I think beyond the occasional bashing of Lenovo, Huawei, now Xiaomi we shall see more fight going on and same should be happening in Chinese press too.

- https://www.gsmarena.com/counterpoint_smartphone_sales_in_q1...

The draconian smartphone (as a a backdoor & tracking device) beloved by the intelligence officers are now an area of a bitter fight.

Maybe I should qualify that with, “outside of China.” If you’re using Apple phones in China, you should assume your data are available to the CCP.

Otherwise, I have yet to see any evidence or indication that Apple collects data in a manner similar to what’s described in this article.

So basically Apple only protects you when they think they won't loose too much? No thanks, I'll take LineageOS + microG every day.