I think the long term more profitable stance Apple could take is: “sorry it’s broken and it’s not physically possible for the technicians or even our engineers

I think the long term more profitable stance Apple could take is: “sorry it’s broken and it’s not physically possible for the technicians or even our engineers or cryptographers to bypass its security due to the genius impenetrable design. Buy another one” the problem is Apple and all the other major tech companies have been trading back and forth the same people who worked at Facebook and other places that see nothing wrong with compromising the integrity of their product for reasons as dumb as servicing it by a third party.