A decent theory at the start of this saga, but not now when SWAT teams are breaking down doors and confiscating property to figure out what happened. Regardless of who started that conversation, I'm sure it ended with Apple saying "yes, we believe a crime was committed." Apple would not be biding their time before stopping a criminal investigation with "sorry, it really was planted."
They’ve done worse! (Crime runs in computer firms veins, Gates stole the DOS 1.0 with the help of IBM)
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