plovell

It's not new - it has been there for some time. I'm not sure if it started with iOS 9 but it was early on in the 9.x releases. It was confusing at first because the prompt was about "after 48 hours" and I had been using my iPhone every day. The message has since been updated to eliminate the confusion.

kermit4krazy said:

Makes sense. If a warrant can breach doctor-patient privilege, financial records and gain access to  personal property, digital property should be no different. At least having to get a warrant creates a paper trail instead of keeping the law's actions secret. 

I'm not sure about doctor-patient privilege. Same with client-attorney privilege. I don't think that a warrant can breach either of these.

This can be done already but it takes a more senior Judge to approve it (i.e. out-of-area). But I strongly suspect that it will lead to jurisdiction-shopping. And that's not good.

pmz: problem is that EU has mandated that all phones have a standardized power supply. It's either mini- or micro-USB (micro, I think, but I'm not sure). There's a push to switch the standard to USB-C.

I guess that Apple could meet this requirement with a dongle but it might take the opportunity to add USB-C so that it could kill two birds with one stone:- EU compliance and digital headphones.

Let's face it - if this move by Intel gets traction, there will be a lot more USB-C headphones than there ever will be with Lightning.

Cue the "Apple is DOOMED" analysts. Blah blah blah.