While I appreciate all those efforts, it would be wonderful if we had a fully functional RAD/IDE with ability to provision beautiful GUI applications. I am trying to develop a native database application with a programmable GUI where business logic can be implemented.

This is possible with present tools. The problem is the lack of that tight knit environment. Everything is disjointed. An update to one component creates mayhem!

Dude, there's a published USB-C Standard.

Apple and the rest will either have to be in compliance or not.

I know of a contractor who drove 945KM between cities within the same province [in Canada] for work.

How exactly would one employ an electric car with technology available today in such a situation?

How about folks who move goods province-wide? Canada is huge!!

Do they think we're fools?

You may ask why I say the USA has been busy...

You see, the USA has been busy fomenting chaos and mayhem in distant lands, (Iraq, Afghanistan and now Ukraine). How things have panned out in Iraq and Afghanistan is another topic all together.

In Ukraine, they have been talking of the imminent [Russian] invasion since November last year!!

May the Almighty keep us safe.

Not so long ago, he says something to the effect...

"...Russia is laying the ground work to invade Ukraine, evidence will be furnished in 24 hours..."

More than 24 hours pass...Nothing!!

He then goes on...

  "If it turns out that Russia is pummeling Ukraine with cyberattacks, and if that continues over the period ahead, we will work with our allies on the appropriate response."

I am almost 100% sure nothing of consequence will happen, apart from the usual boilerplate verbiage politicians..

Russia And China Keep Beating America In Mock Wars.

Former Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work, who served under three Secretaries before retiring in 2017, has been even more explicit. As he has stated publicly, in the most realistic war games the Pentagon has been able to design simulating war over Taiwan, the score is eighteen to zero. And the eighteen is not Team USA.

Think about the metric 18:0 for a second.

Dude, next?

The most worrying thing is that USA often loses to China/Russia in simulated military conflicts.

The once held notion that the USA will always be on the top is no longer assured these days.

In fact, the USA is playing catchup in key economic/military fields, sad!

When the USA denied China access to rocket tech in the early 80s, they developed their own with Soviet help. They are self sufficient in this sphere now.

When the USA led a "coalition" to deny China access to the International Space Station, China developed its own.

Guess what...chips will be next. The Chinese are said to be a few generations behind. Not so bad if I may add. They will catch up like they have in other areas.

I have always been contemplating some form of movement that would end up in the creation of open source software/hardware for devices like these.

The Chinese could provision the hardware, we users download the software and completely tame these thieving companies as a result.

There's more complex opensource software out there saving lots of people headaches. This is one area that still needs to be "conquered."

How about "lack of demand" for the latest device? The iPhone 13 did not have [noticeable] fanfare at launch!

There have been reports of anemic innovation at Apple lately, evidenced with no must have feature(s) on the latest device.

Someone is hiding part of the truth here. Many will not bite!

The rate at which this app introduces [new] features is astonishing...Lately, I learnt that one can essentially run their own radio or TV station, broadcasting to thousands of group members.

The day it'll "bake" a VPN therein will be another milestone. I know it's coming.

Blackmail from the former president (The Donald), hasn't helped here. Corporate media that regurgitated all propaganda from his administration will now renew their efforts.

In the meantime, the march goes on...

Just wondering whether there's anything common between Chinese and CIA agents when it comes to fomenting mayhem/chaos in distant lands... Is there?

This isn't in dispute, is it?

Just wait for anti China zealots who are going to scream..."our IP...our IP" instead of advising their governments to do likewise.

USA, do you copy?

How will Google handle this? We all know for instance, that poor citizens around the world have lost their lives thanks to the media that never questioned what government did...