This seems either incredibly suspicious to me or indicates that Apple is way more protective of security and distrustful of the USGov than I would have thought: “Because Apple didn’t, according to a U.S. official, provide government investigators with access to its facilities or the tampered hardware, the extent of the attack there remained outside their view.”
Why wouldn’t the FBI be able to compel Apple to turn over such key evidence in such an important investigation? Or why wouldn't Apple be willing to do it even without compulsion?
Apple seems cagey about its reputation with the Chinese government. Their balls are directly in the Chinese government's hands, they don't want to do anything that might make the government upset.
Beyond having their manufacturing there, it's also the biggest untapped market in the world.
Why wouldn’t the FBI be able to compel Apple to turn over such key evidence in such an important investigation? Or why wouldn't Apple be willing to do it even without compulsion?