We have to comply with court orders. That’s it.
The funny thing is that I just read a bit of the linked Wikipedia article to find this: Companies and organizations who no longer have warrant canaries
The following is a list of companies and organizations whose warrant canaries no longer appear in transparency reports:
* Apple
* Reddit
* Silent Circle
That is something very different from cooperating with a specific investigation.
Why did Apple not fight this in court?
Could Apple keep the backups outside the EU, like Microsoft did for email in the Dublin case?
But it is not about prohibiting encryption but the possibility and/or necessity that Apple has another key to decrypt your data with.
It does not matter where they keep the data as long as the companies headquarters are on US soil.
Google gives their customers the option for end-to-end encryption of uploaded data and I'm sure they have to play by the same rules as Apple.
2. Apple at least put some effort into this matter because otherwise there would not be so much media attention to breaking into iPhones. To get data from android on the other hand seems to be no problem at all.
3. We are already in hell but we do not yet see the flames surrounding us.
4. If collective choice matters so much we are all doomed and you know it. Try telling the Joneses about encryption etc. - they will still use WhastApp, Facebook and the likes because it is so convenient over a way of burden and hard work to get there or even live without all these "magical devices and services".