I write software. They are asking for version 8.0.0.2 of version 8.0.0.1.
From what I read, Apple is technically capable of doing this. The problem is once they do it, they can no longer claim the phone is unhackable. If they demonstrate that it can be done, every law enforcement agency with locked smart phones will show up with court orders.
The government caused this with the NSA abuses. Cook doesn’t trust the government. He created a marketing niche on that distrust.
I wouldn’t want to be Cook.
The iPhone 5C is running iOS 9.2 and they want Apple to design a tool to defeat its built in security. In the long run, doing that would defeat the built in security of all iPhones. There is NO search warrant, only a writ from the judge ordering Apple to assist the FBI in unlocking and opening the iPhone. Apple was already doing that but the FBI wanted more than help.