So the userbase is worth $12bn.

From now on; whenever they can’t find incriminating messages elsewhere, they will come to you. You suspicious, secret, something to hide-guy.

Everyone deserves private communication.

One of the things skype did first and best was decent noise filtering, transforming peoples shit audio equipment to something you could listen to for more than 5 minutes without going crazy.

You use your own software and read bug reports.

If people can have the right to private communication, and that privilege being extended to criminals as well, surely that is worth it.

Police can do old fassioned police work. Every job doesn’t need to be behind a desk, issuing database queries.

Assumption is that they ask apple to remove it for swedish apple accounts. Apple does that for goverments all the time.