RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Every GOP presidential candidate sides with the FBI in fight I'm also wondering how much this will cost Apple in legal fees.
I know they have an army of lawyers working for them already, but now many will be tasked with this instead of constantly being able to sue their competition for having rounded corners or something obscure like that.
It's possible that they may have had to go to an outside law firm?
In which case, those lawyers are laughing all the way to the bank!!
Imagine Apple came to you (unlimited funds) and told you to fight this.
Double, triple billing anyone?!
So, I believe Apple will lose sales. This will hurt them. Americans don't support them in this. The truth is that the FBI is asking for access to ONE device, not a back door like Apple initially said.
Also, interestingly, the ONE device that the FBI wants access to, didn't belong to the terrorist. It belonged to his employeer!!
And, the employeer who owns this ONE device wants Apple to give the FBI access.
So, in the end, this really hurts Apple's reputation and it's going to cost them "life long" customers and others that were maybe thinking of buying an iphone. On top of that, the legal fees and marketing that they are spending on this will cost them on top of that.
If I owned Apple, I'd be bailing out now. This won't end well for them, Americans want the FBI to gain access to this ONE device in order to possibly save future lives etc.
** I'm happy Chen and Blackberry have the ability to unlock ONE device without creating back doors or jeopardizing other Blackberry devices AND have the willingness to help government law enforcement agencies by cooperating with them when they have court orders.