The perspective is that if Apple bricks its devices for a couple days in the UK the pitchforks will come out considering they have the moral high ground and the

The perspective is that if Apple bricks its devices for a couple days in the UK the pitchforks will come out considering they have the moral high ground and the better marketing team to pitch it to the general population. Whether it's good for a US corpo to interfere with the stable 1984 progression of the UK is another issue. If I were in a decision making position at Apple I wouldn't want to bother with this either. Just take the easy marketing W and move on. Maybe prepare a plan for market exit just in case they're not satisfied with disabling encryption and demand a global backdoor.