Might I politely add, that the fruit store has bet its entire image on the opposite of what you’re claiming? So if the new fruit store head farmer decides to lift the plastic lid and press the res button, they would make an irreversible decision which would be the end of them right away.
Millions of dollars of bounties both by Israeli intelligence, Apple themselves and several entities on the dark web still haven’t come up with anything near credible to support these theories. Unless you’re counting bugs found, reported and patched.
We should by all means work towards open hardware with a FOSS Linux mobile OS on it, but this theory is so tiring.
Could the fruit store technically accomplish this? Yes. Can they do it silently? Yes for at most a few weeks before it comes out. Could they weaponise it on just a few people? Again, this would come out in no time.
Ps Snowden being alive and well in Russia for this long should tell you something else too.