I&#x27;ve already made my legal and political opinions in other threads on the topic and won&#x27;t rehash them here, especially since so many other people are making the points better than I did.<p>However, here&#x27;s something I haven&#x27;t thought of, though I sort of hate to boil the thing down to a business proposition. The fact is that iPhone is a <i>massive</i> business. What all is a company allowed to claim as &quot;burden&quot; in the discussion of undue burden?<p>Let&#x27;s say the FBI wins, and Apple is forced into this. Then the narrative in the mind of the public is that Apple has back-doored their phones and made them insecure.<p>Apple loses literally billions of dollars per quarter for some amount of time until they can repair the PR damage.<p>Is the loss of, say, 50 billion dollars in revenue over the next calendar year something a reasonable person would call &quot;undue burden?&quot;<p>What about other ancillary effects that cost either direct money or productivity? There are rumors of something like an iPhone 6c that is scheduled to be released perhaps soon. (Supposedly a revamped 4&quot; phone like the 5s but with the latest hardware) After all this hubbub about a potentially insecure 5c, who is going to go buy a 6c without wondering if it has the same problems?<p>Casual tech watchers don&#x27;t understand the nuts and bolts of this situation. They hear some things, read some things and go along with the popular media consensus.<p>If the alleged 6c were actually going to be launched in a couple of months, the branding, production, packaging, marketing would all have been bought and paid for already.<p>Does having to recalibrate the launch of a new product and all the costs that might incur count as &quot;undue burden?&quot;<p>Etc., etc. Maybe they need a significant portion of the iOS team to do this, and the work causes delays in the next version of iOS, iPhone 7 has to get pushed back for release and misses the holiday quarter, again, lost sales accounting for billions.<p>I think the potential impact on Apple&#x27;s bottom line could honestly be taken into consideration of burden. Curious about what other people think. Is money just not talked about in these considerations?