As opposed to the likes of AT&T and Verizon. Which we know were actively cooperating with the NSA.

More likely is that perhaps individual Apple or Google employees were suborned, or the NSA took advantage of weaknesses. E.g. IIRC Google wasn't encrypting traffic between its data centers, Apple had a "goto fail" bug, etc. Why bother forcing companies to cooperate if you can instead take what you want without asking?

Let me ask you this: Do you think that Eric Schmidt or Sergey Brin or Larry Page or Steve Jobs or Tim Cook said something like "OK, lets give the NSA what they want."

I don't think so. More likely, if Google and Apple knew at all, they simply acquiesced to what they thought were legal court orders.