I'm sorry I gave you the impression I hate Apple, thats certainly not what I intended.
One of the implicit ideas underlying Apple's arguments is that they are more trustworthy than the government.
But theres a lot of evidence that they are not as strong on privacy as they should be. Casting Apple, and private industry in general as privacy heros does a disservice to those very valid concerns.
Heres an article from earlier this month:
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/feb/05/error-53-apple-... http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/09/16/apple-rel...