“compelling Apple, Samsung and anyone else to write OSs with convenient backdoor keys.”
But it doesn’t have to be convenient.
Apple, could use or provide it only on presentation of a valid warrant. Apple has the ability to challenge the lawfulness of that warrant.
People sometimes are victimized because they cannot afford to challenge a warrant. Here, the provider of the encryption would do so- and amortize the cost over all it’s customers. Making challenges affordable to all- an improvement over what we have now.
No it does not have to be convenient.
However, by hook or crook, it will end up being convenient once a precedent is set, because government bureaucrats are lazy.
In my view warrants are low barriers.
How does one challenge a warrant in a 4 am no-knock situation?
And I don’t think we are talking about warrants in this case, we are talking about writs.
I also never trust a third party to file defense actions on my behalf (unless they are licensed lawyers and i am paying their retainer, and even then i want to keep them close). I would not recommend to anyone waiting around for some third party to descend from heaven and rescue me from an improper warrant (if that is what you are saying— it is difficult to understand). (do you do this? have you ever done this? if you did, did it work? can you cite an example in which it worked?)