Very large companies are definitely at the mercy of governments. Just look at how they are bending over backwards to comply with DMA etc. So, it is not at all inconceivable that they are forced to put backdoors into their product by the governments.
That’s true. On the other hand, Apple isn’t some kind of Borg like swarm intelligence. While Apple’s upper management doesn’t want back doors in their products, someone in middle management might have come to a different opinion.
