[sangnoir]

> But Apple would still need to have the court orders for each user.

Yes, and Apple doesn't want this as a precedent. It does away with one of their go-to selling points these days: security/privacy.

If device security can be surreptitiously undone by an OTA upgrade, what's really the point? I'm sure the brilliant legal minds at the DoJ can come up with creative interpretations to enable the next stage, which would be to do this in bulk as a special point-release.