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Nobody would have to go to jail. They'd hold Apple in contempt and charge them a non-trivial sum of money for every day they refuse. If they continue refusing,
by bgentry 11y ago
Nobody would have to go to jail. They'd hold Apple in contempt and charge them a non-trivial sum of money for every day they refuse. If they continue refusing, the amount increases exponentially until the company is threatened with bankruptcy.
In short: they can't refuse without a justified explanation of why they are unable to comply.
- kchoudhu 11y agoAAPL cash reserves as of Jan 2016: 217B. Looks like the judge's district is about to make a metric shit ton of money!
- gambiting 11y agoIn which case the best way to proceed would be to say that they will try to do it and after few months of investigation say the data became corrupted before they even got the phone. Who's going to verify it? No one.