Given the issues Chipotle has had in recent months with regard to food safety, this is actually not unlikely!

This won't be news until Google completely removes the third parties from the update equation.

So yes, you're suggesting we *not* use computers to determine air bag deployment. You clearly never experienced one of the early air bag cars from the 80's...

Can't help but notice you conspicuously didn't mention how long you continued driving the car after the idiot lights first came on...

This is a system problem, but it's that the control system is incorrectly diagnosing a sensor failure, not that it is suppressing air bag deployment in response to the detected failure. There are only very specific instances where you actually want the airbags to deploy. In the event of failure of a sensor that degrades the ability to determine if airbag and/or pre-tensioner deployment, the fail-safe option is to disable the air bag system to prevent a spurious deployment, and light the warning indicator in the hope the owner has the system serviced.

Given this is a product of Fiat Chrysler America (likely with more than a little DaimlerChrysler legacy) questionable design decisions, combined with indifferent manufacturing and assembly quality, are to blame.

IBM has, over the past couple of decades, done their damndest to morph themselves into a Consulting/AI firm, but 40 years ago it was all about moving metal and collecting rent^h^h^h^h selling service contracts for their metal. It's a common latter day assumption that IBM set out to make an open industry standard with the IBM PC. The IBM PC was intended to lock customers in just as much as all of IBM's previous products did. To that end, the BIOS was copyrighted, and IBM included a full listing of the source code in the user manual. IBM's assessment was that, even in the unlikely event someone did manage to reverse-engineer the PC's BIOS, they would be unable to prove (or even credibly claim) that they had done so cleanly. Of course this assessment was proven wrong within two years, but that's another story.

Qualcomm's major advantage is their patent portfolio allows then to bake in all the CDMA/GSM/3G/4G LTE modems in with the CPU, GPU Wifi and Bluetooth. The Snapdragon SoC's implement damn near the entire cell phone in a single chip that can be used across all carriers. The carrier's underlying network technology doesn't matter because the Snapdragon supports all of them, and with one hardware version. That ne plus ultra sustains Qualcomm's hegemony and relegates Intel, Nvidia, MediaTek, etc. to Wifi-only devices.

Whatever. You're crazy! Rogue One was horrible?! If anything, it was better than TFA, which was good, but played like a high budget fanfic ripping off A New Hope. Rogue One also (very belatedly) ties up many of the loose ends A New Hope had when it was trying to be a stand-alone movie.

The "accounting by weight" method masked significant cash-flow problems in the company that threatened it with insolvency. Fearful a disruption to military production during WWII due to the company's financial state, the War Production Board quietly contrived to have Henry Ford II, then in his 20's, released from his Navy service, so he could return to Detroit and help manage the company.

So, in other words the pointless feature-creep that plagued dumb-phones before the iPhone came along?

The massive shift to outright and installment sales also means consumers are seeing the "true cost" of their devices, and consequently not seeing the value proposition of these "incremental" updates.

the market, to include the developing world, is getting saturated.

USB and Bluetooth integration are increasingly common in new cars, starting from 2011 or so. But in many cases the Bluetooth is limited to phone calls and can't do streaming audio. CarPlay has even less penetration, and is only in cars (at all) from 2014 on, is not yet remotely ubiquitous in new cars, and likely won't become moreuniversal until the federal backup camera mandate kicks in in 2018 and rail-roads all cars into having in-dash touchscreens.

One of the big wins Apple scored in the past decade, outside their own industry, was the way they spurred automobile manufacturers to add iPod/iPhone integration. Now, the average car on today's roads is about 11 years old. Most cars of the mid-2000's provided just a 3.5mm aux Jack. I realize Apple's customer base skews to the higher end of the income spectrum, and likely drives newer cars, but that still will leave a large number of customers out in the cold because they don't have the means (or willingness) to change their car.

Or you could, you know, tell the phone to install that iOS update.