It's worth thinking carefully about the Apple case in a wider context. Any cipher, which the state cannot crack, will not be allowed to proceed.
Look at the history of Colossus and the Lorenz cipher following WWII. Bletchley Park cracked it in 1943, yet told no one until the late 90's. Nation states were still using it!
The same is true of TLS, the cipher suite in every web browser. If that truly anonymised your data, it would not be allowed to proceed. Same with crypto - sorry folks, even that is not censorship resistant.
So the Apple case was astonishing because the state actually confessed this fundamental point in public.
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