There are lots of good reasons for Apple to avoid a defamation lawsuit about this. (1) Streisand effect (mentioned by another commenter) - it would generate to

There are lots of good reasons for Apple to avoid a defamation lawsuit about this. (1) Streisand effect (mentioned by another commenter) - it would generate tons of free publicity for their opponents. (2) Civil discovery - the defendant would get to demand access to Apple's internal e-mails about this issue in order to try to prove its case. (3) Possibly losing - even though this feels obviously intended to make people believe false things about Apple, a court might accept that there is some interpretation of "allows" and "complicit" that are protected criticisms of the company under some jurisdiction's defamation standard.