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Amusing after all the hate from the chattering IT media about the HomePod and Siri and how Amazon and Alexa/Echo was SO much better. Now we find that Amazon is/was bleeding millions from selling Echo speakers below cost  and that people don't ask their smart speakers anything more than "turn on the lights" or "set a timer" or "play music" and the whole division at Amazon is being gutted.

There is a big difference between crash detection and fall detection during exercise. Both call 911. It’s much more likely it’s fall detection. I have triggered fall detection mountain biking.

They should go and work at other retail outlets to see how miserable regular retail really is. Before college my son worked at an Apple Store and said the customer facing stuff was hard work with the usual demanding US consumer attitude, but in general it was a great place to work. He also did a stint at a Gap store, and said that sucked 100x worse than working at an Apple Store. Working retail was a big motivation for him to get that CS degree let me tell you!

These are not the same use case as a UPS. A more typical use for this would be off grid running a star link system with a solar panel to keep the charge.

#1 Saying that MalwareBytes was crippled is a massive exaggeration - simply re-enabling the access fixes the problem
#2 This may not be a bug at all. Perhaps Apple did this intentionally to make sure that users are aware of what apps are being given full access by forcing them to re-enable it manually.