ericthehalfbee

DAalseth said:

An interesting tactic but I question how effective it will be. I don’t see where the suit was filed, but if it was in California, all NSO has to do is keep their operations offshore and there’s no way to enforce it. 

I do expect the battle of the press to heat up. Apple is going after NSO for enabling spying on journalists, activists, and private citizens. Expect a blizzard of reports about how Apple is trying to protect criminals, drug dealers, terrorists, and pedos. It’ll come both from NSO and from the legion of Apple Haters out there. 

peteo said:

narwhal said:

Too bad for Tile. About the only way they can compete with Apple's AirTag is to drop their price dramatically and launch a massive ad campaign. Apple devices that can track AirTags are ubiquitous; phones running the Tiles app are not.

Well except that airtags do not work with Android and other non apple devices. There are 3 billion active android devices so there is a big market left for tile/life360. It also works with Amazon Sidewalk. There is also Tile embedded , which works with Bluetooth chip manufactures and allows lots of other devices (HP laptops, Fitbits, Headphone, battery packs etc) to track tiles and of course tile works with iOS devices too so, there is really is no down side in having a tile device. Maybe they will decide to join apples Find my network, but I bet the terms make it not worth it. Hopefully life360 can do a good job marketing Tile because apple needs competition. 

waveparticle said:

jdw said:

waveparticle said:

So Apple will take full liability of Apple Car? Every rider will assume the luxury of a queen sitting in Apple Car? 

No one seems to know that question, but I wouldn't expect the "passengers" to be held liable, since they are not drivers.  No doubt the nutty bloodsucking lawyers will try to still pin problems on "car owners" simply due to the fact it's their car, but I look forward to the day all police traffic stops end.  No more unmarked cars, speed traps, and quote fillers!  Perhaps LED tech can help keep tail lights from burning out as quickly as the bulbs do, and an onboard computer could detect when a light is out, then suggest a low cost replacement to the car owner -- all without police intervention.  No more, "oops! I didn't see the guy!" accidents either.  Indeed, most stupid accidents may become a thing of the past.  I really look forward to this.

However...

I still don't believe in 100% autonomy with current tech.  The human brain is a far more powerful computer than anything these programmers have come up with to date, and no doubt that includes Apple too.  I cannot see how a car can drive itself under all circumstances.  A lot of tech used in 2021 Toyota cars that keep the thing in the lane relays on painted lines.  What about roads with no paint?  Even Toyota's Radar Cruise stops working when it sees a curve in the road!  What about when a 100% autonomous car encounters potholes, sudden harsh sunlight reflections, fog, etc?  What happens when a paved road becomes a dirt road?  What happens when the car encounters something it was never programmed for (which would probably be all the time)?  I'd hope it would just stop, but then if it never moved, what happens next?  

I wish Apple well, but there are a lot of unanswered questions about 100% autonomy.  And then the question becomes, how will Apple's shift to cars affect its existing business?  They've always be laser focused on what they do well, and they do few things as a result.  Wouldn't the automotive business become a distraction?  And what of restless lawmakers who can't rest until the've enacted another silly law, always seeking to nail "big tech" to the wall merely because they classify it as "too big" and therefore naughty under anti-trust law?  As Apple grows its business (as it should in a free market), law-makers will increasingly find ways to shoot it down.  Quite sad, but it's the living reality we have today.

Human beings cannot compete with computer speed. They are lights years apart. Have you ever hit a deer on the road? The deer will not run toward the car. They saw the car but miscalculated how fast the car was moving. If the deer can see the car coming, the car can see the deer running on the road. Why you hit the deer? Because it takes at least a second for you to put foot one the brake. The computer can apply the brake instantaneously. This one second difference will allow the deer to move across the lane the car was on. So 99% of the time, a deer won't be hit by a computer driven car.

Autonomous car will reduce accident dramatically. The lawyers will find no case to sue. They will be starving.