alt Hacker NewsLiterally any firm can get a SOC2 Type 1, because there's no lookback to it; the Type 1 is a pinky swear.
In practice, if you're careful about how you do your Type 1, the Type 2 is almost as trivial. Your HR/bizops practice is much more likely to screw up and cause exceptions than anything you do in IT or engineering.
From my 8 years of working SOC2 Type 2 audits done by PwC for a large PaaS Cloud with a worldwide presence (not the big 3) saying Type 2 is almost as trivial as type 1 is absolutely false. This might be true for someone running their own low volume SaaS in one region but for someone the size of Apple they are investing a lot of resource to stay on top of the controls, especially patching and permissions. If you've invested heavily in homogenization and automation your less likely to fail and the audits will be simpler. Even with significant investment I expect there are many aging corners in any "cloud" that make audits subject to failure and require a lot of work to avoid qualifying exceptions.