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He's got to find something to spend his $23B salary from Tesla on, hasn't he? (sic)
I'm not and have never have been a Twitter user but personally, I hope he fails miserably.
IMHO, he has more than enough on his plate with Tesla, Space X, The boring company, and his brain implants/android.

lkrupp said:

One of my son’s is a structural engineer and, like you point out, if his name is on the blueprints he is responsible if something goes wrong due to his engineering designs or calculations. That’s why we have the PE (professional engineering) certifications. People can die if the engineering is faulty and the bridge or building collapses. The same should go for software engineering.

Now we’re worried about the Russians waging cyberwar on our infrastructure. Why? Because the software running it has holes in it, that’s why. Last night’s 60 Minutes had a segment about how the Russians are constantly probing our infrastructure like power, water, food, petroleum, looking for ways into the systems and planting malware for future activation. 

I approached writing software like your son does structural engineering. Being a Control Systems Engineer by profession, making bulletproof software was a matter of pride for me. Yes, it took longer to code, test, and everything but it was worth it in the long run.
I lost count of the run-ins I had with scrum masters who wanted apparently little things like error handling relegated to technical debt which would never get attended to. Most of the time, I delivered very robust software that needed little attention while in operation. 
The problem is that delivering code comes out of CapEx. Fixing it later comes out of OpEx.
Quality costs. It can be done but few companies want it. They want something delivered NOW and for zero cost.
There is a saying in the north of England...
 you don't get owt for nowt. 

Very true

Good system security (inc privacy) is not easy or cheap. It takes a lot of time and effort not to cut corners and leave gaping holes. It is also not something that you can add to an existing system in a hurry. It is far better to design it into the solution from the start. Sadly, far too many managers think that this is an option that can be skipped.
As a now-retired software engineer with over 45 years of experience, I applaud Apple's stance on this.

qwerty52 said:

I can't imagine a reason, why I would install Google Chrome on my MacBook Pro at all

I can't imagine a reason, why I would install or use anything from Google on my MacBook Pro at all

That seems a little better. Once upon a time, I used Google for lots of things. Then I began to understand data of mine that they were slurping.
It rankles with me that I can't totally block everything from Google. Their [redacted] is used everywhere on the internet and without at least some of it enabled, you don't get very far. As for those stupid Capturs!  They are just a PITA.

Prometheu said:

OK, fine, I'm glad they're finally doing something. But this could be solved so much more easily by just dropping webkit and becoming a Chromium browser. The whole world is browsing with Chromium. It's fine. And most importantly, it always on the cutting edge of everything new in the web. WebKit on the other hand lags YEARS behind major web innovations. If that's what this effort is going to address, then great, but I sincerely doubt it.

Chrome/Chromium is the last thing I want on my systems. Even the MS version of it sends all sorts of data back to the mothership.
If it can be guaranteed that there is no slurping/tracking going on then I might consider it but all the plain versions of it that I have examined leak like an old oil barrel that has been peppered by 100 rounds from an AR-15. If you want to promote this google product then I advise you to get proficient with tools like wireshark.