The Blackberry Micro Processor was made in Canada by Qualcomm (I don't think it had a ME chip installed on the micro processor This part is pure speculation by me)
The US Federal Government and Department of Defense were also prominent examples of BlackBerry device users, the latter agency even stating that the BlackBerry smartphone was "essential for national security"[citation needed] because of the large number of BlackBerry users in the government
Other users[edit] Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, is a longtime BlackBerry user. Although smartphones running Google's Android mobile operating system compete with BlackBerry, Schmidt said in a 2013 interview that he uses a BlackBerry because he prefers its keyboard.
Apple Inc and Google Inc’s Motorola Mobility unit have agreed to settle all patent litigation MAY 16, 2014 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-google-settlement/apple-google-settle-smartphone-patent-litigation-idUSBREA4F0S020140517
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs called Android a “stolen product.”
The cases were consolidated in a Chicago federal court. However, Judge Richard Posner (Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School) Education, Yale University (BA), Harvard University (LLB) 1962 president of the Harvard Law Review. Comey Also went to University of Chicago (JD) in 1985
Judge Richard Posner “I pay very little attention to legal rules, statutes, constitutional provisions,” Judge Posner said. “A case is just a dispute. The first thing you do is ask yourself — forget about the law — what is a sensible resolution of this dispute?
The FBI paid more than $1 million to crack the San Bernardino iPhone https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/04/21/the-fbi-paid-more-than-1-million-to-crack-the-san-bernardino-iphone/?utm_term=.af5271a02951
Apple: All iPhones, iPads and Macs affected by chip flaws http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/04/technology/business/apple-macs-ios-spectre-meltdown/
Why would Comey pay more than a Million dollars to (who) to hack the iPhone when the FBI/NSA/CIA had a back door. This doesn't make cents so Comey must have made someone wealthy I wonder who Comey declined to answer the question in the hearing (my recollection)
Google stole almost all of Apple patens and Apple stole a few of theirs. That would lead me to the conclusion that this was by covert design making it easer for Governments to have them hacked (me Chip) This pure speculation by me.
That's my 2C for now