The contradict themselves:<p>&gt; Is it technically possible to do what the government has ordered? … Yes, it is certainly possible to create an entirely new operating system to undermine our security features as the government wants.<p>And yet:<p>&gt; We have done everything that’s both within our power and within the law to help in this case.<p>If it&#x27;s possible for them to do it, then it&#x27;s within their power, and it&#x27;s perfectly within the law for Apple to write a custom OS and deploy it onto a device with the device&#x27;s owner&#x27;s permission (in this case, the owner is the County of San Bernardino).<p>They don&#x27;t want to do it.  Heck, <i>I</i> don&#x27;t want them to be able to do it.  But they can, because they designed a system which they can backdoor.