It probably takes way more effort, time and money than the FBI likes to invest to break open an iPhone. So this high profile incident was used as a way to influ

It probably takes way more effort, time and money than the FBI likes to invest to break open an iPhone. So this high profile incident was used as a way to influence public opinion that this kind of heavy protection was helping pedophiles and terrorists. I think the main result of their initial declaration was people buying more iPhones if anything at all. And now it backfires.