Attacking all Apple users is really over-the-top, asshat. You really destroy any point you might have by attacking almost one BILLION Apple users and painting them as "fags." You really are an idiot, you know that?
You have a tenuous grasp of the actual events.
First of all, Apple never had possession of the San Bernardino Terrorists iPhone "hand over the Iphone to be unlocked" as you put it. Secondly, Apple never "pretended to say 'well it was unlocked by someone else'" because that was not what actually happened. It took multiple companies competing to come up with a means of unlocking an OBSOLETE Apple iPhone over SIX MONTHS to finally come up with a way to unlock that ONE SINGLE device and it was a one-off. It was not universally applicable to even all iPhones of that model. It required a major effort.
Thirdly, Apple was not ordered by the Courts to "unlock" that single iPhone 5c, but rather to create an entirely new version of iOS 8 which BYPASSED the security locks and then GIVE IT TO THE FBI. . . or alternately to create software or hardware tools to UNLOCK an iPhone and then to hand those tools over to the FBI.
The Federal Law called the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), introduced in 1993 and passed by 103rd Congress in 1994, says the FBI could not ask them to do this, and the Federal Magistrate Judge could NOT ORDER Apple to do it. It was against Federal law to do it. Apple was following the law, the FBI and the Federal Judge were NOT. Here is section 103 of the CALEAct:
(Sec. 103) Provides that this Act does not authorize law enforcement agencies or officers to: (1) require any specific design of equipment, facilities, services, features, or system configurations to be adopted by providers of wire or electronic communication service, manufacturers of telecommunications equipment, or providers of telecommunications support services; or (2) prohibit the adoption of any equipment, facility, service, or feature by such entities.Prohibits a carrier from being responsible for decrypting or ensuring the Government's ability to decrypt any communication encrypted by a subscriber or customer, unless the encryption was provided by the carrier and the carrier possesses the information to decrypt the communications.
The courts have ruled that "carriers" in this instance include the manufacturers of the handsets and other hardware and/or software that may provide the encryption.
Finally, the Democrats had several times ATTACKED Apple during Obambi's administration, looking to get their hands on Apple's cash, accusing Apple of tax evasion, not paying any income taxes, and a host of other nefarious tax practices, which Apple categorically proved were not at all true in sworn testimony before a Democrat led Senate investigating Committee hearing that showed not only was Apple paying Income Taxes, but was in fact the single largest payer of US business Income taxes! . . . but you don't have a clue about those attacks from the Obama Administration, do you? You seem to think that Apple is a simpering sycophant for the Democrats, but that is not at all true. Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook have done far more to push the Obama agenda than Apple. . . and put one hell of a lot more money toward it than Apple and gotten free rides
Seriously, you Anti-Apple Hate Brigade "fags" crack me up. . . you protest so much it must be to deflect attention from the fact you are hiding in the proverbial closet.
“Finally, the Democrats had several times ATTACKED Apple during Obambi’s administration,”
Really. Tim Cook is an obama ass kisser, a flaming libtard and hates Republicans more than losing money. Gimme a break here. If and when obama says you jump, liberals do. It’s law.