Apple is currently required because there is an outstanding court order. I'm not sure if they have submitted a formal appeal. I do think there are some interes

Apple is currently required because there is an outstanding court order. I'm not sure if they have submitted a formal appeal. I do think there are some interesting questions about "forced work" here, but that can be said of any subpoena, and I don't think many would contest the entire concept. From my standpoint: Apple can prove critical in obtaining whatever evidence/information may be on the device. It may certainly be the case that there is nothing valuable there, but such events should be thoroughly investigated. This was a personal computing device of a person who killed many, we need to know what is on it, and we can. It wouldn't surprise me if Apple were already working on the software.