It wasn't about all iPhones? As soon as this case started there were twenty other cases just waiting in the wings to jump on it as soon as the tool that law enforcement wanted Apple to create existed at all. Most of them were trivial cases: drugs, petty crime etc.

I've never used an iPhone, but I'm glad Apple put their foot down. The government is a terrible custodian of slippery slopes, don't give them any more.

It's difficult to do with just one phone and toothpaste doesn't go back in the tube. If they do it for the US, what do they do when it's a dissident in China and the party wants the phone unlocked?