Whats on the phone that isn't already on at least one cloud server and on NSA spy servers and telco records? That's the real question that everyone is carefully avoiding.

I mean, you could break into my android phone at enormous effort to use my phone to access my gmail app, but isn't it easier to just ask google, and I'm sure the telco and NSA are already logging everything anyway?

You could break into my phone to use my phone to use my facebook app to look at my uploaded pictures, but isn't it a million times easier to just contact facebook to access my facebook account?

In this new era of dumb terminals, its like a FBI agent demanding access to the terminal settings screen of a vintage VT102 in order to track terrorists or whatever. Or a demand to know my modem init string. It demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding of the entire ecosystem from top to bottom.

The purpose of all this drama is to avoid discussion of the insecurity of cloud services.

It might be that apple people use the cloud a lot less than us android people. I'd be interested and surprised to learn that.