the world is much simpler than that, my friend. Apple left the canary there to not alarm their customers. As far as we know, they could have received millions

the world is much simpler than that, my friend. Apple left the canary there to not alarm their customers. As far as we know, they could have received millions of warrants and never removed it for market reasons, or they could have received warrants that told them to not change that page as to not harm ongoing investigations. Anyway, it is very conveniently timed with the release of ios8, and their month old marketing plan of announcing that new 'super secure feature' that "we can't comply to warrants even if we wanted BS". I'd have to be a huge fool to not thing that this is a pure marketing ploy to force me to move to IOS8, and nothing more. Also, you probably can still access iCloud pictures that the phone uploads automatically by just guessing random urls or something or another.