Apple could accommodate the FBI by cracking the encryption and then write the code to program that possibility out of the OS in the next version. After reading this, I had to reconsider that approach.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/02/technical-perspective-apple-iphone-case
“EFF supports Apple’s stand against creating special software to crack their own devices. As the FBI’s motion concedes, the All Writs Act requires that the technical assistance requested not be ‘unduly burdensome,’ but as outlined above creating this software would indeed be burdensome, risky, and go against modern security engineering practices.”
With this in mind, and the fact that we live in a world where the good and bad people all have phones and can use them to suit their own purposes, perhaps in the future Apple will devise a way to design the OS and the encryption software in such a way that encryption cracking can be done but the backdoors can be totally walled up in succeeding versions of the OS and its encryption.
I imagine that as digital technology continues to develop, a workaround in the sticky wicket of the digital wilderness will be devised to accommodate the good, the bad and the ugly intentions of users.
Perhaps in the future, the ultimate security protocols will be built into the OS and will dynamically analyze the usage habits of the phone user and be able to detect the nature and strength of character, moral inclinations, and the bio-chemical stability of the brain.


