I still vividly remember my father in law screaming over me about the election being stolen, in my living room during Easter in 2021 when I replied to his claims that they were hiding boxes of fake ballots under tables in Georgia.
He literally refused to even listen.
Kissing the boot would have been to build in a back door and provide the UK with secret access to every global Apple users data.
It’s ridiculous to expect them to exit the market and it is illegal for them to fight this in public.
This was them giving the middle finger to the UK. Saying, without saying it explicitly, that they will not give the UK unfettered access to global customer data.