Government pushed Apple to act as long before San Bernardino

Apple is saying “no, we won’t even attempt it” and then lists the reasons. One of the biggest is that the requested tool does not exist, and iOS was designed to not allow such tools. So even if they tried, success was not guaranteed.

A less principled company might take the phone pretend to try, and either do a song and dance about “we’re working on it” forever or brick it and say “oops”.

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