That case was a sham: as soon as it was going to a court, the FBI just used one of the backdoors to get everything they needed and dropped the case. Easy to make people then write it off as a win for Apple (who, doing nothing, cleared their bad rap in the public opinion) and a loss for the FBI, even though Apple had long before provided backdoor access to the US government and were just acting like saints, as proven by NSA document after NSA document.

Of course this only proves they're silently compliant, not that they're actually being controlled by the government. However, if you take a look at just how much advertising company Google is entangled in government affairs, it's not very hard to extrapolate to other large US-based technology companies.