"It is very interesting that the richest* industry in the US cannot make their home senator bend to their will." I think they can, and did. I think the entire

"It is very interesting that the richest* industry in the US cannot make their home senator bend to their will." I think they can, and did. I think the entire apple/iphone/fbi storyline was a ruse. The government went to apple and told them which way things were going to go and Apple pushed back and insisted that they needed some kind of plausible deniability and PR cushion for the eventual state of affairs. So they worked together to concoct a (fake) dispute between Apple and FBI, which Apple "won", but which still allowed the FBI to get what they needed through a heretofore unknown third party. I am not sure who I would consider having the upper hand in this relationship, but I know it's not you and I.