So, whatever else you may intend with this move, all you're really doing is ensuring that all questionable communications are relocated to another device. This will prevent exactly no malfeasance. It won't stop insider training. In fact, you're closing off the only real possible enforcement available to you - catching people misusing the devices in front of them.

What is the end game?

And it was around several thousand years before that. Religion might want to claim it, but marriage for political reasons like maintaining power and alliances is older than Christianity, and well described before its precursors.

You might be using the word "construct" incorrectly. Better to say that religion is a proponent of marriage, or that it incorporates it.

Why is Google's monopoly a thing we should use to judge Apple? What's important is whether or not Apple has a monopoly. And not only is iOS not the world's largest platform, Samsung recently passed Apple as the world's largest provider of devices.

We should not be mandating equivalence. That's not necessary for things to compete. As a matter of fact, market differentiators are where competition should happen.

It's covered a lot above, I'm sure. But sometimes people take the demand for originality a little far. If something is going to resonate with people, it has to have some portion of the human experience in it. That makes a screenplay an easy target for being called derivative. I once heard somebody describe the Lord of the Rings as a really complicated Fed-Ex quest. They weren't wrong.

Some people want the wider ecosystem, and for their phones to be treated essentially like desktop computers - the wild west, with endless possibilities. And that's fine. That's not what Apple is selling. Apple is selling a controlled environment - a massively capable device that is decidedly NOT a desktop wanna-be. The fact that the hardware could do it isn't actually relevant. Ferrari isn't selling dump trucks, even if their cars have four wheels and a trunk.

For the vast - VAST - majority of users, this means sweet bugger all. No impact. No benefit. Some minor contingent of nerds will care... but they mostly went android anyway. But this isn't about the users. Not really. There's no new capability being introduced here.

Now, for developers... that's more complicated. Will anybody experience the intended benefits? Maybe? I'm skeptical. I'll bet some that try will discover that the costs to implement this side-loading from their own infrastructure outweigh the sales. But that's just a swag.

But the second somebody comes calling for warranty support because a third-party app is misbehaving, I would expect the default to be for Apple to say "no", and to either start the per-hour charging meter running, or to insist on a factory reset before servicing it.

The last two movies I saw in the theatre were poor experiences for me, thanks to... people. People should understand that even if your ringer is off, a multitude of glowing small rectangles in the darkness is a problem. That an audible text notification is also in poor taste. That shutting the fuck up is good form.

Given that I will not ever again spend so much as one thin dime on comic book franchise movies, the modern theatre experience holds little value for me. My home setup is terrific, and the popcorn is better. Movies are worse. People are worse. Prices are nuts. I cannot think of a single reason why I would ever go to a theatre again.

Dark Matter is one proposed answer. Nobody's pretending it's a settled question. BUT... I appreciate your response, even if it's a tangent from the actual topic of distrusting people "because" they're actually educated on a subject. Thank you for a tactful, reasoned reply.

My apologies for the tone of my own response. Perhaps my growing distaste for almost all of the online community is a tad unreasonable.

Just keep prompting "TL;DR" until you're happy.

"Some are engineered to break in certain ways"

Highly doubtful. There are lots of angles to planned obsolescence... part availability... non-serviceable parts... driver discontinuance... O/S support retirement... even the discontinuation of consumables. But engineering consumer electronics products to actually break after a predetermined period - presumably after the warranty and not before - is hard. For fly-by-night chinese rebadge brands, the cost to engineer it would be more than the product is worth, and for name brands there's precious little up-side, and a bad down-side if proof ever came to light.

You can say they were shitty designs or crap materials, and that can be true. But it's not planned or engineered failure. There's a difference. Intent matters.

Putting a name on a thing as a placeholder is called "making a word". You not liking it doesn't mean it needs to be changed. You're mistaking the name as applying to a thing rather than the cause of a phenomena. The phenomena is real.

Anyways, yes - you're the person my post was directly pointed at.

Plagiarizing nerds had a limited window. Eventually somebody advancing in that way failed out. Now you can coast on it right through - these nerds never grow stronger, and never file assault charges.

If you learned how to do your job with AI, I can probably get AI to do your job.

Well, given the trend in America of belittling and shaming anybody who aspires to being an actual subject matter in an academic discipline, H1B might eventually be your scientific lifeline. Better open those doors wide and prop them open with cement blocks.

There are few things more symptomatic of the stupidification of America than people doing their own "scientific research" with the internet, and distrusting the opinion of a pro because that person is actually educated...

Can you please parse your post for me? Are you saying Apple is allowing people to repair their own products? Or allowing them to repair stolen products? Or are you pointing out the product doesn't belong to Apple once they sell it?

In any case, passive aggressiveness aside, do you agree it's a good thing?