Well, it seems the specific argument about implications for US citizens doesn't hold much water to me. Apple's legal standing for refusing decryption requests i

Well, it seems the specific argument about implications for US citizens doesn't hold much water to me. Apple's legal standing for refusing decryption requests in the US is because the tool has not yet been built yet, and they cannot be compelled to build a circumvention tool; it seems they could continue to rely on this defense even if they were to build a circumvention tool that only circumvents the specific, circumventable encryption scheme used in their custom AUS-market firmware. Of course, the principled thing would be to pull out of the AUS market, but even Apple has not proved themselves to be that principled.