[bostonsre]

Yea, pretty interesting point.. seems like either the uk market isn't big enough for them to implement a solution or they don't care about the market and they care about people in the uk but they don't care about people in China.

[csydas]

in advance I agree with a more cynical point as well, but I think we need to consider that there's equally plausible and more positive potential reasons

- if there is success in the UK, relevant persons at Apple can make a more compelling argument to push back on China and other governments a lot more

- perhaps apple is still pushing hard on china and using the UK as an example that they're willing to drop a long time strong market over the anti-encryption legislation

I'm not saying either is the case, but there are benign or even positive reads on why apple is more aggressive with the UK

[madeofpalk]

It's not super interesting. Apple's reliance on China in many ways, and thus hypocrisy, is reasonably well known.

"At least" companies can put up a fight in the UK (or US, see Apple in the San Bernardino case) and they have a reasonable chance they can lobby to block the efforts.

[detourdog]

They may hold the UK to different cultural standards than china.

China is tricky and I'm sure after Hong Kong Apple changed their calculus.