“You missed the point that Apple (did say OK) was helping them voluntarily and timely data could have been gotten pre-tampering. After the govt tampering (which you attribute to panic)...”
I did no such attribution. I said that there (it is said) was a presumption that there would be assistance to rally around someone who is trying to piece together a picture of a known enemy that just killed 14 people and they couldn’t conceive that they would not get assistance from the people who built the phone or that the assholes that did build it would take advantage of a mass murder for political and market points. The over exaggeration of the “software creation” that you are bent on supporting is for the idiots who gobble up this apple sauce.
YOU may not know who the good guys are...which says more about you than them...but most Americans do. I don’t know where the little apple cabal comes from or why they would support such a ludicrous position, but you are right, I guess we will see. Maybe when the dust is cleared, apple can hire the Dixies Chicks to sing their new jingle for them...”Screw America, We’re in it for Ourselves.”
Thanks for reminding us of the trite old song “Feelings.” After parsing out the emotional baggage in your post there is nothing left. Ad hominem instead of logical discussion indicates desperation to the rest of us.
There are interesting new stories about the issue. The debate continues on other threads.