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Isn't this really a case of the government forcing Apple to invent something that doesn't currently exist?

Wouldn't this be like forcing a doctor to find the cure for cancer because the President's daughter is sick? It would be a different matter if the vaccine were right there on the shelf.

-PJ

65 posted on 02/24/2016 4:57:07 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)

Isn't this really a case of the government forcing Apple to invent something that doesn't currently exist?

The word "invent" is hardly appropriate for making a one instruction code change and then recompiling. If this is the standard than Software developers "invent something that doesn't currently exist" perhaps a dozen times a day.

Wouldn't this be like forcing a doctor to find the cure for cancer because the President's daughter is sick?

Sure, so long as the typical doctor could do it with about 15 minutes work. Then it would be EXACTLY THE SAME.