The legal question here is really whether the All Writs Act can be used to compel development of new products with specific features law enforcement desires, because that&#x27;s what it boils down to: they want a custom iOS build with custom security-bypass features that can be loaded onto any phone they want to snoop into.<p>And when framed like that -- government ordering a private company, without negotiation or contract or even agreed-upon -in-advance compensation, to develop a product -- I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s a chance in hell of it standing up. The question is whether the court that ends up hearing the final appeal will frame it like that.