Once a certain piece of technology exists, courts can order that it be used a certain way other than the way it was intended. Neither courts nor legislative bo

Once a certain piece of technology exists, courts can order that it be used a certain way other than the way it was intended. Neither courts nor legislative bodies are capable of explicitly requiring the invention of technology that doesn't yet exist, although in some cases they could make it an implicit requirement of a law. At least in the US most lawmakers are varying shades of technologically illiterate and don't have a grasp of what is possible or not possible. If technology doesn't exist yet, you can say to them "this is impossible", and with enough of a bribe, they will believe it. Apple by building this technology, has put it on the map and announced that this technology both possible and is ready.