Sounds like someone is throwing a temper tantrum because Apple won’t give them unfettered access to customer’s data.
Does sound a lot like that.
Exactly, the OS is not the data...
Data is the distillation of a process or transaction, as result of but not an inherent functional necessity of the O/S for it to work...
Fail...
Exactly!
I’ve said this before, but IMO worth repeating; 21st Century America would be dreamland for Stalin and Beria - surveillance equipment was (and is) expensive and finicky, but in US of SR, the targets buy, install, and maintain incredibly sophisticated and capable equipment for you!
How the courts could even entertain the line of reasoning given here is in and of itself chilling.