In Tim Cook&#x27;s words, from his latest letter to the employees:<p>&quot;Some advocates of the government’s order want us to roll back data protections to iOS 7, which we released in September 2013. Starting with iOS 8, we began encrypting data in a way that not even the iPhone itself can read without the user’s passcode, so if it is lost or stolen, our personal data, conversations, financial and health information are far more secure. We all know that turning back the clock on that progress would be a terrible idea.&quot;<p>The last released non-beta iOS is 9.2.<p>Bill Gates still owns some 13 billions in Microsoft stocks.