[harryh]

You make it sound like Apple is being asked to put a man on the moon. They're being asked to comment out a few lines of code and recompile. Apple's objections have nothing to do with the volume or difficulty of work.

[karlshea]

It sounds like you aren't very familiar with the actual ask; that's not at all what they are tasked with doing.

The FBI wants them to create an operating system that would run entirely from RAM without touching any of the flash memory on the device.