The problem with operators is not only that they often delayed fixing critical bugs for no good reason; they also liked to add maliceware. I remember a Nokia phone with one key dedicated to trick users into starting it by accident, which of course was billed.

Apple preventing network operators from breaking their software on purpose was a huge step forward.

>We never thought our startup would be threatened by the unreliability

Daily reminder that cloud services are vastly less reliable than traditional hosting; it’s just that they manipulate the terminology to deflect that, replacing reliability with availability, aka “making impression of working”.

>Huawei is beholden to the CCP and can be coerced

It works the exact same way with every American company, as evidenced by numerous backdoors revealed by Snowden and other folks.