That's not a contradiction at all. Apple simply won't sell phones to carriers that won't agree to let Apple control the updates. That doesn't in any way contradict the fact that carriers have the capability to prevent updates.

You had to invoke Godwin, didn't you?

You've missed the point. With IPv6, you don't need NAT. NAT is a response to the limited address space available with IPv4.

It's recording and playing the commands of a human pilot instead of simulating a dynamic model and deducing commands based on a genetic algorithm.

Or, you could RTFA.

As Oku repeated a maneuver several times, the trajectory of the helicopter inevitably varied slightly with each flight. But the learning algorithms created by Ng's team were able to discern the ideal trajectory the pilot was seeking. Thus the autonomous helicopter learned to fly the routine better - and more consistently - than Oku himself.