True, but if you believe the marketing hype as a Chinese user, you might be suckered into using it, believing it would protect you better than WeChat did.
The point is, Apple sells Privacy everywhere as their brand, but in China, has deprived their users of most means of attaining it, either by making their own offerings less secure, or by banning from their App Store, any third party apps that could let their users have privacy from the government.
And then Tim Cook went to China and praised the government for it's vision of an open internet: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/12/04...
A lot of excuses being made for Apple not living up to their principles in China and kowtowing to the almighty dollar (or renminbi in this circumstance)
