Their huge egos and self righteousness makes them look like they see themselves superior to the potential good of the rest of us.
Apple resisted an illegal court order that had no basis in law. A New York Magistrate Judge, in a case exactly similar to this one, although not so heinous, ruled that the All Writs Act can not be used the way the FBI and DOJ was trying to use it. He ruled it was UCONSTITUTIONALLY trying to usurp the legislative power to change an EXISTING LAW. . . 1994's Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, which specifically states that Law Enforcement CANNOT require companies such as Apple to do what the FBI was trying to get Apple to do. It explicitly STATES THAT IN FEDERAL LAW.
The FBI cannot use a court to get an order to do something it is PROHIBITED by law from doing. Nor can a court use the All Writs Act to do something that Congress has addressed. It can only be used when Congress has NOT addressed something. It cannot be used if Congress addressed an issue and even declined to Act, because declining to do something is an ACT, and the Courts cannot substitute their decisions for the Legislative using the All Writs Act. In this case, not only did Congress address the issue, it acted! That prohibits the courts from using the All Writs Act from being used to re-write what Congress chose to do about encryption!
Apple is choosing to protect the privacy of the users of over one BILLION iOS devices, many of whom are relying on those devices to keep their safety and identities secure, as well as their finances and even state secrets secure. Included in the users of those devices are GOVERNMENTS, including ours, who pressured Apple into increasing the encryption on iOS devices so they could be securely used by OUR government agencies, OUR businesses who needed a mobile device that was secure enough to protect OUR ENTERPRISE secrets from prying eyes of foreign nationals seeking to steal intellectual properties and data. . . which is all too often happening. . . and you, ignoramus that you are, ignorantly claim it is ALL about terrorist stuff that may be on a stupid WORK phone that the FBI already knows AND ADMITS only has work calls, work messages, and work emails from the complete data they got from Verizon!
Sorry, you are just plain wrong.