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GeorgeBMac said:

Without left and right buttons I find trackpads to be a pain in the butt.

It doesn’t take long to adapt to a one finger tap as a left click, and a two finger tap as a right click. 

GeorgeBMac 

Later, his Mom liked his MacBook so much she wanted to get one for herself.  But, when I told her they could no longer run Windows she said "Nope!  I want to be able to run WIndows".

While Bootcamp may be going away, you can still run Windows on an Intel MacOS machine using Parallels, or VMWare Fusion. And now, VMWare makes a version of Fusion called Fusion Player, which is free for personal use.  I’m currently using it on my 2016 MacBook Pro running Big Sur, and have a virtual Windows 10 machine, a virtual Linux machine, and a virtual GNS3 appliance for network emulations. It works great. 

22july2013 said:

Although the limit of four characters engraving seems to prohibit placing a phone number on the AirTag, I noticed there were lots of two-digit emojis to choose from so I was able to engrave my 7 digit phone number on mine. The highest two digit emoji is 50 so some phone numbers will be unengravable, however the fact that a phone number has only 7 digits, not 8, means you can still find a way to select some 7-digit phone numbers that contain high digits. There were two ways I could have engraved my number because of this trick. This means people can contact me if they find my AirTag even if I haven't put mine into "Lost Mode."

Phone numbers in many parts of the USA are ten digits, with overlay area codes being used to cover higher population areas, or even whole states.

That said, a label maker can make 10-digit phone number labels sized to fit an AirTag. 

Maybe we just need to have a staff of elderly people check and verify who is voting by phone.  After all, we trust their skills at the polling places.  lol

Seriously though, the technology is there to positively identify the account of a user using the device, whether by using certificates, tokens, plus device biometrics.  There are ways to fake/forge any of those...but that exists in most realms.  So, making it as positive as possible is the only way.  Multifactor identification to the extreme.

But as some others have said, it is essential to positively identify the identity of the voter, but to separate that voter’s identity with the actual votes cast.  The paper and/or electronic voting systems do this, by putting no voter identifiable information together with the cast votes.  So, would it be that difficult, after positively identifying the voter, to allow that person to cast a single ballot with no link to the voter’s identity?  I suspect the solution is closer than we know.

The problem is, the clowns who are in power in the various governmental agencies, are not tech-aware, so they make the assumption that electronic voting from an iPhone is not safe or secure.  After all, Frank LaRose didn’t say that Tim Cook told him what a secure solution is.  He just jumped to the immediate conclusion that it isn’t safe and secure.  Maybe because his pornhub account got hacked?  lol

mangakatten said:

This is just speculation, but at one time many years ago there was some investigation that Apple and Google where too close due to some anti monopoly law, and the companies started half hearted campaigns attacking each other. Intel’s really bad attack on Apple makes me think that it maybe was a decoy? Could it be seen as some monopoly situation if intel started making all apple’s chips? I don’t remember the exact circumstances of Apple/Google, but this was sometime before Steve Jobs went thermonuclear war with Google.  

Apple and Google had a conflict when Apple stopped making Google the default search engine in iOS, and again when Apple Maps came out and replaced Google Maps as rhe standard mapping/nav app in iOS. In fact, Google removed the Google Maps app from the App Store for awhile.