There&#x27;s a much bigger elephant in the room, though:<p>Updates to the OS and applications are encrypted, completely opaque, signed by Apple instead of the original developer, can be granted additional entitlements for arbitrary permissions, and cannot be audited by anyone but Apple without a jailbreak.<p>When coupled with push updates, Apple already <i>has</i> a targeted backdoor into every iPhone anywhere connected the network.<p>This is a much more difficult problem to solve, as securing against that threat model requires an diverse ecosystem of 3rd-party audit&#x2F;review, software, and tools.<p>I don&#x27;t see any way of solving that issue while also maintaining their stranglehold on the platform via DRM.