Apple's new iPhone ads cover encryption, the environment and privacy

Apple released three new ads for the iPhone today, including one that is exceptionally timely. With a new report indicating that the Trump administration is thinking about outlawing the use of end-to-end encryption on messaging apps and mobile devices, one of the three 15 second ads promotes end-to-end-encryption for iMessages that are sent between two iOS users. Apple's Messages app uses two different colored word balloons, blue and green. A message received in blue is an iMessage sent from a fellow iOS user, and is encrypted; a green balloon indicates that the message was sent by SMS (text) most likely from an Android device. Those messages are not encrypted.