&gt; Quite honestly, I don&#x27;t think they would lose that many clients.<p>You&#x27;re underestimating the amount of industrial espionage that the U.S. does to favour its multinational corps.  MS, Apple et al. were fine to benefit from the fragments this might bring them when it was a fairly well guarded secret and it was assumed that the U.S. was on relatively equal footing with other countries such as France, UK, Germany, Japan in this regard.  The Snowden leaks show that the NSA capacity is a couple orders of magnitude larger than any other country and suddenly the U.S. players would lose more business through distrust than they would gain through government espionage.