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.
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
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.
