> And whatever happened to Apple who refused to work with FBI on the San Bernardino shooter but here is only happy to comply in a much less interesting case?

For a bunch of years Apple was slowly moving in a direction where they couldn't offer encryption keys to law enforcement because only customers had access to encryption keys. I'm not sure if it was publicly announced or just internally planned, but they were planning to do it for iCloud backups, too, but never went through with it. Reporting says it was in cooperation with the FBI.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/21/apple-dropped-plan-for-encry...