AAPL was one of the last holdouts on the government's mass surveillance of U.S. citizens in the PRISM system. Cook is still militant on pro-privacy issues. Now he's signed up for a personal meeting with the President that he didn't initiate..... Buy a Chinese-brand phone that the U.S. government is trying to stop - like Huawei. The U.S. government's actions are revealing that it's harder for them to tap into the Huawei phone. https://www.fastcompany.com/40563691/tim-cook-will-have-a-private-meeting-with-president-trump-today
Thats it! There was something about it that sounded like bullshit to me and thats it. The manufacturer probably isn't cooperating with putting a back door on the phone or something.