The German decision was motivated by a mobile security solution from a German company, Secusmart, which was subsequently acquired by Blackberry. Secusmart developed the product for Blackberry OS 10, but not for iOS or Android, because they are not secure. About 4,800 German civil servants now use BB OS 10 cellphones with Secusmart chips, not just Frau Merkel. The decision was well researched.
If the facts were as you state them, a decision made in anger based on erroneous information from Snowden about a secure Apple product, then Apple would have convinced the German government to restore the Apple relationship and Secusmart would have developed a solution for iOS phones. You paint the German government as gullible and Apple as inept marketers: Occam's razor
No, Kennard. There's more to it than just marketing. Politics has a lot more to do with it than you give credit. Merkel needed to distance herself from Obama and the U.S. Apple was just one means. Other US tech companies were hit as well. . . and other European Union countries are doing the same in a economic slap at Obama. Part of it also has to do with the new Banking and financial regulations the Obama administration has put on foreign accounts and doing business with US corporation and IRS reporting requirements that just went into effect.. . .