As someone who uses SpiderOak One for e2ee backups on my gaming/media/windows box, this is really cool of them.
This should be a default, basic feature of any service today offering storage of personal information. It's not like we haven't had the technology for decades. It's win-win, too: The company can't be held responsible for the contents because they can't read them, and the user gets privacy. Which in America is legally protected from the government. That means that if the company can't peer into the data, there's no point in even wasting their time with a warrant.
If the keys on the device are generated at the user's behest with some input of theirs, it's out of Apple (e2ee vendor)'s hands, logically, logistically, legally, and ethically.
This should be a default, basic feature of any service today offering storage of personal information. It's not like we haven't had the technology for decades. It's win-win, too: The company can't be held responsible for the contents because they can't read them, and the user gets privacy. Which in America is legally protected from the government. That means that if the company can't peer into the data, there's no point in even wasting their time with a warrant.
If the keys on the device are generated at the user's behest with some input of theirs, it's out of Apple (e2ee vendor)'s hands, logically, logistically, legally, and ethically.