> It's a complete change of narrative and there's no easy way to explain it and still defend Apple's Privacy narrative, wihout doing extreme mental gymnastics. Everyone who took Apple at their word was already doing extreme mental gymnastics because Apple's privacy stance was a farce on borrowed time to begin with. Now it's just blatantly obvious to everyone.
It’s only a “farce on borrowed time” because you have the benefit of hindsight.
I think you'll find that a few of us, above poster included, have been saying all along it's a farce - that their stances have been missing the point for a long time. In that case, it's called foresight. Sometimes just luck, but repeated lucky guesses are indistinguishable from predictive power.