If apple were to give the FBI a back door then their whole implementation of 256-bit encryption that happened just after Snowden will have been for nothing. Their asking Apple to create a back door for them and then hand it over so they can do God knows what with (almost certainly make sure they can exploit this back door in future cases). "If Apple is required to help the F.B.I. in this case, courts could require it to use this software in future investigations or order it to create new software to fit new needs", so if Apple loses in court all Apple users will have (in terms their data's privacy) a false sense of security covered by a bright 256-BIT AES ENCRYPTION tag. Looks like their stuck between a rock and a hard place, time to go back to blackberry