Well there is an alternative solution. That alternative solution being to force Apple, under threat of legal action and massive fines, to do what we want them to do (using the legal and legislative process).
Giving nation-states control over how Apple runs their business in their countries based on what a tiny sliver of the most technically-adept users wants will somehow engender freedom. Is that the pitch?
> Giving nation-states control over how Apple runs their business ... based on
If you don't like the political process then you can vote for someone else, who will pass the right laws, or appoint the right people to make such laws.
If you don't like the legal process, then do that, leave the country, or do business elsewhere.
Countries have a right to have laws that regulate companies. The population does not belong to Apple.
That population has a right to run their country how they see fit, regardless of the objections of Apple.
And if Apple tries to get around the law, you can expect them to suffer billions and billions of dollars of fines, or further legal consequences. Countries do not belong to Apple, and they have no right to get around the legal process.
Apple - like every corporation incorporated here in the United States - would literally not exist if it wasn't granted recognition as such by at least one nation-state. God forbid there be some conditions on that massive privilege.
