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I think readers are finally realizing that headlines are intentionally crafted to draw them in, only to find the actual article has nothing to do with the implications of the headline. This headline suckers the reader in with a clever implication that Apple’s car technology is faulty and causes accidents. Then we find out that nothing of the sort happened. Both vehicles were stopped and struck by human controlled cars. Wow, the headline didn’t say that.

Yes, the regulations require that any accident involving an autonomous vehicle be reported. But why not say that in the headline?

Volunteer reporting is about as useless as self-nominating surveys. There is no way that volunteer reporting will produce any worthwhile data concerning the status of employee vaccinations. Even if Apple were to mandate a response people would lie through their teeth, especially the hard corp anti-vaxxers. The only way to get any semblance of accurate data would be to require employees to show proof of vaccination. Sure, there might be few that would resort to counterfeit vaccination cards but it would be much harder than simply lying on a survey.

The people who run surveys and volunteer reporting always forget about human nature. Personally I love screwing around with telephone surveys. I always respond to their crafted questions with answers that go against what they want to hear. Political surveys from politicians are the most fun to mess with.

And when the series 7 is announced and available for sale this rumor will be debunked as most rumors are.

9secondkox2 said:

Good 

the whole thing is wrong. 

“Oh. There’s a new disease. So we must track you. And we need to know your movements as well as those of your contacts.” RIIIIGHT… that’s going to end well… 

Forget HIPAA. Forget privacy. Not to mention potential abuse of something like this. 

This kind of thing did not happen with HIV/AIDS, note the flu, nor pneumonia, nor anything. All of a sudden, a née deadly disease is out and we are supposed to happily forget our humanity so that people who tell us a different story every day can monitor us like lab rats. 

No thanks. 

Yeah, right, whatever. Except that that attitude most likely killed tens of thousands of people who might have survived otherwise. Unless, of course, the pandemic is a hoax? Is it a hoax? Did Trump win the election?

lam92103 said:

Finally!! A win for developers and customers

Nope. Total loss for developers and customers. Less exposure and more marketing costs for developers as they find themselves responsible for their own promotion. No more free marketing provided by Apple. Developer’s apps will just exist on the app store with no promotion unless they pay for it. What do you think that 30% cut was for anyway? They must fend for themselves. No cut for Apple means developers will have to pay more upfront for being on the app store shelves. Free apps will suffer or disappear onto third party app stores. 

Higher prices, more confusion, and less security for customers as they are exposed to malware riddled third party app stores. Customers will buy an app on a third party app store only to find Apple will block it from running for security or privacy reasons. You think Apple is just going to roll over on this? If a third party app breaks Apple’s existing security/privacy rules do you really think they’ll let it run on iOS or iPad OS? That app will run for awhile and then suddenly break. 

The only people who will benefit are the ones who don’t even know what the word ‘monopoly’ means. They’ll pay lip service to the ‘freedom’ they ‘won’ for themselves.