During the San Bernardino case, they have said multiple times that they cannot install software without the user entering their password. And even if you assum

During the San Bernardino case, they have said multiple times that they cannot install software without the user entering their password. And even if you assume a publicly traded company lying outright, what do you think is more likely: then silently backdooring the phones of people in Hongkong or pretending to have accidentally unpatched a vulnerability, hoping people would update to that OS in order for pretty obvious exploits being able to run? If I was as evil as you make Apple out to be I would sure as hell do the former.