Quite possibly, hence why Apple is taking the stance it is. Bend the rules for one, and you end up doing it for everyone.
The point I've been making is not that Apple are wrong for making a stand (and I personally agree with their point of view), rather the ill informed comments being made claiming that they're being forced to break their own encryption (they're absolutely not, and if their encryption is as good as it should be, they can't) and are making a backdoor for the FBI (again, they're not, and have used their security credentials as a selling point recently).
This scenario wouldn't even be possible on a later iPhones due to the secure enclave, so even if the FBI were to somehow coerce Apple into making a tool to speed up the process of brute force guessing a handset pin, the percentage of devices it could work on is getting smaller all the time.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
