Both apple and bloomberg are heavily back by intelligence and elite community.
Bloomberg would never have published this story without the approval or permission of some section of the intelligence community. And apple/amazon/etc would never have come out against it as strongly without the approval or permission of some section of the intelligence community.
Seems like after Trump's election, there is a war between globalist pro-china elites and the nationalist anti-china elites.
This story, saudi journalist story, north korea, china, russia, europe, brexit, etc... There is a rift within the elites. We'll never know the behind the scenes full story but it should be interesting to see how things unfold. Are we on the cusp of a global paradigm shift or will the old guard win and maintain power?