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So police are no longer allowed to ask you for footage from your own camera that you paid for?

I think this is about the clearest statement ever that when you buy a cloud-connected device, you don't actually own it.  You paid for it, you installed it, you use it, but when push comes to shove, it still belongs to Amazon because they have the final say over what you are allowed to do with it.

We see articles like this for every iOS release.  Most people see a spike in battery usage, probably due to things like optimizing the file system or re-indexing search databases, but that returns to normal in a day or two.  And every time, some people report excessive usage that never seems to go away while others with identical hardware report no such problems.  And people speculate about what's going on, but never come to a satisfactory conclusion.

As the article says, this release isn't much different from any other release.

At any time, there are some people whose batteries are failing or are close to failing.  I personally suspect that the extra load from a system update is sometimes enough to push these devices over the edge, or at least push them far enough that their owners take notice - even if what they're noticing is something that's been gradually degrading for several months or more.

This has very little to do with Air Tags.  Apple already announced that they've opened the Find-My network to third party products.

As such, anyone implementing the protocol can drop a message on the network, which can be received by any device connected to the corresponding Apple ID.

I don't see this as a way to break into anything, but it could be an interesting kind of dead drop.

As for using it to exfiltrate data from an air-gapped system, that would be a very poorly implemented air-gap.  If you're shielding equipment in a Faraday cage, then you shouldn't be allowing people to bring personal electronic devices into the cage.

So Epic is claiming that if you develop a popular app for your own platform, you have some legal obligation to port it to your competitor's platforms?  And give it away for free?

Well that cuts both ways.  Why can't I buy Fortnite for Linux?  How about for my Raspberry Pi?  Or my SGI Indy workstation?

If they don't immediately do this right now, then they are being anti-competitive and need to be punished to the full extent of the law.

That's complete nonsense.  Nobody expects Apple or any other computer company to do the impossible.

You can't run PowerPC or ARM or SPARC or any other non-x86 system software on a PC without an emulator.  And you can't run any non-ARM system software on Apple Silicon without an emulator.

As for deciphering the boot sequence to let ARM-based Linux run on a Mac, this is no different from earlier generations of Macs (68K, PPC and Intel) being able to run system software not approved by Apple.  Apple has never supported this, but they have never explcitly tried to prevent it either.  It's up to third parties to figure out how, and as we're seeing right now, the Linux community is coming pretty close to figuring that out.

The x86 PC is a unique example in the history of computing.  It can run a variety of operating systems from a variety of sources because the hardware designers do not (in general) develop any system software, so they need to make sure their product are compatible with what others invent.   But this is not and has not been the case for most other computer architectures.  Nearly all other computers/workstations, current and historic (not just from Apple, but IBM, SGI, Sun, DEC, HP and others), are designed in conjunction with their system software and the manufacturers do not support the use of any third-party system software running on their hardware.

Very few people would consider all these computers to not be "general purpose" simply because they can't run x86 PC system software.