T.j.p.

Use your nose. Click 5 times quickly on the power button. Use longer complex passcodes. Apple gives the tools for privacy if you use them.

Well, their patent appears to infringe on zigbee. Or vice versa, or the amateur mesh networks from the early 2000s, or the 1990s military mesh networks. Or ... this patent seems obvious considering the prior art.

Doesn't have to be self-driving but should include safety lane keeping and braking systems. And the ability to detect near-future problems like pedestrians and stupid drivers. And detect sleeping drivers or inattentive drivers and best of all worlds pull to the side of the road.

The problem is, backdoors, intentionally weak security, and all that law enforcement wants, they all enable the criminals access as well. If you want law enforcement to access your phone freely, don’t enable any lock. I’m happy for you, for your secure feeling that law enforcement would never abuse that. These are the same police that routinely examined phones at traffic stops. Company confidential info be damned, nude pictures playfully taken on vacation of your spouse, and more. No chance they won’t short your stock or post copies of the pictures in their locker rooms. However unlikely these things happen. I prefer my privacy.

All that will happen is Apple products will cost 2+% more rounded up to the next marketable price. Who pays this tax? People who buy Apple products, not Apple. The UK is wanting more money from its citizens. They know Apple will raise prices to cover this cost.