The FBI or other agencies require things that cost money all the time. In this case, they offered to compensate Apple for they work. And it&#x27;s disingenuous for Apple to say &quot;create a whole new operating system&quot;. That&#x27;s so absurd as to be pretty much a lie. What the FBI wants is not much more work than unlocking a door, just for more highly paid people.<p>And calling it &quot;creating new technology&quot; (not your words, but others&#x27;), is silly too. Doing almost anything with software is creating new software, but calling it new technology makes it sound like they have to go out and do a bunch of R&amp;D and make some significant breakthroughs or something. In reality, it&#x27;s a trivial thing.<p>To address the quote you posted, it sounds like Apple is probably lying there too. Especially given the vast exaggerations in other parts. I highly doubt they would have a hard time making a modified OS that was device locked.<p>But if it&#x27;s <i>really</i> true that they can&#x27;t make a device locked firmware, well, then of course I hope they win this fight.