That article contains no evidence that Apple has a hidden agenda.

Gesturing broadly doesn’t work because it’s not evidence. It is only innuendo.

If you had evidence you’d be able to be specific.

"Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained" doesn't sound privacy oriented to me.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...

Navigating the complexities of dealing with different governments is not the same as having their own anti-privacy agenda.

Of course they should encrypt the backups, but perhaps the alternative was going to be some kind of legislation that would be even worse.

> navigating the complexities of dealing with different governments

That's how kids call "handing over all cloud customer data to FBI" these days?

Holy whitewashing batman, that's a lot of speculative mental gymnastics.

To put it simply you have no evidence that supports Apple here other than a "but perhaps the alternative was... whatever I just came up with" .

To paraphrase yourself in another comment: "that's intellectual dishonesty about Apple."

If Apple cared a single bit about privacy it would have encrypted customer data from the begining instead of planning to eventually do it one day only to give up uppon FBI request.