Do I trust them? Sure, I guess, when it comes to privacy from other entities.
Do I trust that I will have privacy from them? Hell no.
Do I trust them with the data they’re absolutely gathering? No, but I don’t trust anyone with it. But I also think that data would be relatively safer with Apple than their competitors.
If Apple announced Recall? Apple wouldn’t announce Recall, that’s the whole point. Apple wouldn’t be so brazen and stupid to implement a tool that is so obviously invasive and so poorly implemented. Apple earned its trust by not making those mistakes.
But if they did decide to say fuck it, and implement something like Recall, of course people would trust them. That’s what trust means: consumers take them at their word. But if it’s as bad as Microsoft’s Recall, Apple would burn all that trust when people found out.
People don’t believe Microsoft because they have long since burned any trust and good will for most of their consumers. They have proven time and time again they don’t give a shit about users wants or needs, and users have felt that. So when they announce Recall, they have no earned trust. No believes them. And it turns out everyone was right to.
The placement of that text is deeply frustrating. Just a black text box placed without any care? No craftsmanship at all?
And a watermark? Still, in 2024? Uggh.