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Hm, wondering how easily the watches, and consequently an entire AppleID account and its data, can be compromised with such a tool…

Apple needs to allow security researchers access to these. 

It’s not like one can assume that everyone working at Apple is trustworthy by virtue of being an Apple employee.

cgWerks said:

It has to either be smart, or sound good.
And, if it is in that 'sound good' category (like discontinued HopePod) then it needs an audio input so it isn't a one-string-banjo.
I'm not sure why Apple is having such a hard time with this.

Yup; thankfully *I* can do everything with AirPlay; but just the ability to also use it as a bluetooth speaker outside the Apple ecosystem, would have gone a long way…
…an actual speaker input, such as to be able to use it as an active speaker, would have helped, too.

The biggest issue is, that for a mono speaker it’s overkill: if you want quality, you want stereo or surround. As such, they should have predominantly been marketed and sold as stereo pairs, with singles being the exception, not the norm.

Good riddance! Another entitled brat who tried to politicize the workplace, and get a fat payout as a result.

In a country like Russia, they would have a car accident.

In the US they will sue, until the company will settle for a large sum of money under an NDA not admitting any guilt, just to avoid the damage to the reputation the continued legal action causes. You can bet that’s the endgame of her and her lawyer.
She’ll try to claim whistleblower status (even though there was nothing to blow a whistle about) and then sue for wrongful termination.
Some woke idiot in Hollywood, likely from competing corporations like Netflix or Amazon Video, might even offer a dramatized movie deal, where “based on actual events” something despicable is covered up in a company called Prune Computer, Inc., just different enough that Apple can’t sue for defamation…

Bad behavior gets rewarded these days, because due to entitlement, wokeness, nobody dares to tell such people anymore: “You’re a loser, pack up your sh*t and f*ck off!”

A generation that wants communist equality, at a capitalist level of wealth, while being lazy and irresponsible.

High time these laws get passed.
The current situation limits users’ control over their own devices and leverages dominance in one market into another market, the picture book definition of abuse of monopoly power.

Apple can’t have it both ways:

1) For legitimate reasons they want to control what apps are associated with an Apple branded AppStore, as they affect the Apple brand.