

They could - UK being out of the EU gives them far less power.
Apple puts every decision into profits. Does breaking encryption do more damage than the profits of the UK market makes? If yes, they leave.
If this was an EU thing, the numbers would be entirely different, and they couldn’t just pull out. Now they might.
If the default ones does, 95% of the data is still harvested. Then we don’t really matter.
But yeah, everyone reading the guy aboves comment, get the keyboard. The more the better.