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I doubt CarPlay Ultra will be available on any car other than very expensive ones in the next 10 years. EVs might take a chance with these but all the current ones already have invested tons of money on their own digital dashboard, which is what CarPlay Ultra is. Tesla isn't going to use this and might be out of business because of insane management. GM and Ford might end up using China as their manufacturer and Chinese cars have already created their own digital system. I could see every car manufacturer continuing to use the simple, current Car Play. I might be wrong but I can't see anything happening with general vehicle manufacturers any time soon. They have to worry about tariffs and their ability to stay in business.

Apple builds the computer platform and all these software people feel it's their right to use and abuse it. AFAIC, Apple should buy certain software companies and lock out every other software vendor. This way, they aren't playing favorites. All the software companies need to do is manufacture computer products for their software. Oh, wait, they don't know how to do that and only want to sue Apple to abuse Apple's systems without paying for anything. Of course that sounds like the right thing to so--NOT!

"Lower than feared" but still way too much. Our worthless president isn't done destroying our country and the rest of the world. I don't believe anything the financial people are saying because they've been wrong before, very wrong. 

CiaranF said:

This is clearly the users fault and not the device. What a stupid and silly excuse to use to try and wrangle your way out of trouble.

“A good tradesman never blames his tools.”

I agree, it was the users fault but you need to understand that they also used the wrong "tool". The current Cabinet is inept, filled with worthless trump-suckups who haven't the faintest idea how to do anything. Government computer and cyber security regulations can't do anything when they aren't followed. They obviously didn't use devices configured for classified discussions, they used personal devices on the Internet, which is NOT approved for any government classified discussions. Signal is not approved for classified discussions. Apple Messages isn't either. Our government has had a secure, classified communications system for decades. Initially it was based on specially configured Blackberry phones using a very secure Blackberry cellular communications server. trump doesn't care about anything and neither does his Cabinet. I suggest everyone read these two Blackberry blogs:

https://blogs.blackberry.com/en/2025/03/secure-communications-realities-governments
https://blogs.blackberry.com/en/2025/02/blackberry-uem-achieves-nsa-commercial-solution-classified-designation

This doesn't mean our government is still using Blackberry phones but they continue to use Blackberry backend systems. There needs to be an official investigation of the entire Signal chat session using non-government inspectors. We all know the current DOJ will not investigate anything trump, et al., are doing so we need a third-party organization to do it. There are non-government organizations with Top Secret access who regularly monitor government organizations. One of these needs to investigate everything that happened so Americans know how stupid our current administration is.

AppleInsider said:

The current administration is not the only one to have relied on Signal. The Biden administration also used it, because the government does not have its own system and Signal is considered one of the most secure messaging platforms.

It's my understanding that the White House cyber security group is handled by DoD. It sounds like you're saying the White House ("government") doesn't have its own system when it absolutely does. The White House is not allowed to use any unclassified network or device when discussing anything remotely classified. The idiots in the White House who said it was only sensitive, not classified, need to re-take their security courses because even sensitive communications are only allowed to be used on government controlled systems. Mike Waltz is an idiot and should have been immediately fired. DoD rules do NOT allow Signal to be used on government mobile devices, they (might) be allowed on personal devices but can't be allowed when conducting any business. I don't care what Biden used but I know our government is required to use restricted access computer devices and I'm sure the government's mobile device management system doesn't include easy access to the Apple App Store or any Google app store. Generally, government phones are locked to a point where the user is unable to add apps to their government phone. I worked for a large DOE contractor and personal phones were NEVER allowed for business use. We would carry two phones, one personal and one government and we never used a personal phone for government business. If we did, it was cause for immediate firing and possible arrest.