larryjw

This suggests an interesting sideeffect of security. The more secure the less able to detect a security breach. 

Now, that is obvious from a sociological standpoint -- who monitors the monitors.

But, even from a technological perspective? Are we into the area of non-computable functions? Goedel's incompleteness theorem?

I'm absolutely certain Apple, et al, are working with WHO, at some level on potential "passports". It would be malfeasance for there not to be communication between people in these organizations to understand the feasibility of these suggested proposals. 

Is there anything "official"? No. Informal? Of course. 

Local politicians are for the most part cheap whores, but Epic's ability to get lap dances pretty well indicates Epic doesn't actually need protection from the App Store. 

What an incredible interview and discussion! Makes my day. 

It's been years, no decades, since I used Office on a PC. Missing from Office on Macs is MS Access. 

The last stable and functional version of Access I used was Access '97. The later versions I attempted to use were unstable, losing foreign key definitions being the most obvious problem. Back then, I was certain Access needed to be rewritten from the ground up to remove all the underlying hack code that made it unstable. 

Is Access a dead-end product for MS? It's offered only on PC versions of Office. From my perspective, it's the only desktop level database that has reasonable functionality. No other product has a reasonable relational db back end, and a nicely integrated front end. Claris is awful from every vantage point: functionality, cost, value. 

The result of no viable fully functional integrated desktop DBMS is we're relegated to using spreadsheets which isn't the same thing at all.