I'm sorry, but you're wrong. You want Apple to engineer a backdoor into the software. That is, at best, security through obscurity, because if Apple can unlock a random iPhone, then either anyone can unlock it or, if it requires some special key or S/w that only apple has, it's only a matter of time before the NSA gets someone inside of apple with access to said key and they steal it.
And if i"m wrong, fine, when you come up with a bullet proof way to do this that not only can't be stolen or ever be exploited by the government or criminals and we are certain that it's existence can't be abused by way of the courts (FISA or otherwise), then we can talk. But I don't believe you'll even be able to do the former, and I'm certain you can't ensure the against the latter, because FISA is just a machine with rubber stamp. Sure it didn't work a couple of times, but no machine has 100% up time.
You guys have heard my arguments on this and most are unswayed, if someone new wants to see them, the search tool is their friend.
You have also heard my predictions and seem unswayed so we will see. We will see.