From what I've read, enterprises certainly love iOS for security. And for better or worse, LEA provides well-reported test cases. So it's not that Apple wants to protect criminals, it's that criminals are canaries.

Indeed, the whole "going dark" vs privacy debate mostly misses the point.[0]

> The heightened tension produced by the introduction of encryption by default into an environment where terrorism has magnified the need for efficient law enforcement access (surveillance) supported by a newly-expanded CALEA framework is often framed as a contest between privacy and security. It is, however, more accurately framed as a security issue on both sides, one side which integrates traditional privacy concerns with the growing focus upon cybersecurity ... The cybersecurity and, incidentally, pro-privacy position rejects exceptional access as a dangerous fiction that would, among other things, create new attack surfaces, rendering networks more vulnerable to every form of predation, from financial crime and IP theft to cyber espionage, ultimately generating unacceptable risks to our national and economic security.

0) https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...