I'm shocked! SHOCKED I TELL YOU at the prospect of an engineer running a company that makes product the requires engineering to create.
You need only look at a particular interview with Steve Jobs to understand this. He said that at one point Apple hired a bunch of MBAs to run things and it didn't work at all because they didn't know how to do anything. This also speaks to the reality that once a company loses sight of what made them a great company in the first place, they're effed. Churning out the same thing year after year isn't what makes a company great. That's why Hollywood studios get into trouble. Taking risks is part of what makes great companies great. MBAs don't understand taking risks. They want to minimize risk.

For those of you who haven't been paying attention, cookie-cutter, assembly line houses are the norm. Drive into any new housing development and they all look the same crammed onto the smallest piece of land possible. That's what you get from mass-production. It's not a new idea. All this is doing is reducing the production cost. Meanwhile, the affluent will be building custom or at the very least semi-custom homes.

As a cross-platform developer, I can tell you that Android is a godawful mess. That aside, I'm guessing that this is really a false flag and the DOJ actually is pissed that they can't backdoor iOS devices. Notice that no DOJ including this one is complaining that Windows has too big a market share and stigmatizes Mac users. That's the dog not barking.

Government cramming shitty CFL bulbs down people's throats because CFL manufacturers i.e. GE were going to lose their shirts once LEDs became viable. The same thing is happening with wind and solar. Cram it down the throat of consumers because once Gen 4 nuclear power gets past the bureaucratic log jam, nobody is going to want anything else. I'm going to predict that in about 15 years when solar fields are going to need to be replaced, they won't be.

The DOJ blames Microsoft for the inability of Apple to have an equal share of the corporate computing market. Oh, yeah, that never happened. It's amazing to me that governments insist on killing the golden goose because the tax revenue they get isn't enough to fund their crap agenda. Let's kill Elon Musk's businesses not because the government isn't benefiting from their commerce but because the government can't control him like they can NASA and General Motors. Just imagine what the country would look like if Garland had gotten onto the SCOTUS.

It's worth noting that this sort of thing didn't exist for years. IMHO, government putting its thumbs on the scale caused this. Moreover, the subscription business model caused this. Government, not content to wait until there's actual commerce that can be taxed, wants to get in on the racket (hint: that's where UBI money is going to come from).

Apple "working on a solution" is like them saying that offering paid upgrades (as opposed to a subscription-based app) is "too hard". (No, it's not)

"Fair" and "Fairness" have been co-opted into meaning "You're going to get butt-effed to make someone else happy and complaining about it is not ok."

The last digit is zero.

How much you want to bet that the end result will be a subscription-fee product?
That said, the visual inspection thing might dovetail with the Vision Pro and allow for some sort of Vision Pro based inspection tool.

This is what happens with runaway incompetent government. They have no ability to solve real problems and they probably have no desire to solve them because doing so takes away motivation to demand reelection votes. They know most people have a short memory and forget that the people they voted for last time didn't do what they said they were going to do. So they go after low-hanging fruit that reinforces their power knowing that the voters can't do anything to stop it. This kind of bill is particularly egregious because it literally prevents people from pointing out that the people they elected to fix things aren't doing anything worthy of reelection. What's worse is that the narcissistic supporters think that such a bill gives them power over people they don't like and it will never be used on them because they are holier-than-thou. #GFY

So basically, everyone who lives in a major metropolitan area lost IQ points. This presents some eyebrow-raising correlations. These will be left as an exercise to the reader.