If only Google saw this and added a way to allow this to run on ALL Android phones.

A number in a vacuum doesn't explain much.

Butterfly environments... did those expand or shrink in quantity and/or area?

What eat them? What do they eat? Do they provide much utility in the ecosystem (I can't remember anymore)? Etc

Or claimed data because of a lack of imagination.

When creating a product you often put in methods to access data. Test support plumbing that might not be easily removed at the end (how can you test the final product if you're missing required parts?).

My guess is they found something like that. Sometimes security is 'by obscurity'. A poor policy choice, but not uncommon.

Or yeah, maybe it's a backdoor used by someone else (heck I'll bet the US and EU would frame China).

I meant a mistake in creating the firmware flags answer for their exact device, maybe (like by whoever used the ESP32, or the researcher looking for problems to report).

Seems like a bug in flashing or test mode.

"Ulefone phones have a variety of battery capacities, including 9,000 mAh, 13,200 mAh, 22,000 mAh, and 33,280 mAh.
Battery capacities by model

        Ulefone Power Armor 14 Pro: Has a 9,000 mAh rated capacity and 10,000 mAh typical value
        Ulefone Armor 24: Has a 22,000 mAh lithium-polymer battery
        Ulefone Power Armor 13: Has a 13,200 mAh lithium-polymer battery
        Ulefone Armor Pad 3 Pro: Has a 33,280 mAh battery ..."

Meaning they have no automated and effective way to know if a lawyer is lying about a citation or not. Meaning they're not doing their own jobs effectively, and to point that out... they're going to penalize someone for a mistake that they DID catch.

Fire a bunch of people back in 2017, and yeah... forecasts from today may look rosy too.

But lets play the game. AI is just better tools. Meaning if we used to pay someone to do it before, we might use AI to do it instead. And why not sell what the AI created afterward? Why force AI to recreate the wheel every time?

You're a moron Trump, and you know it. Quit now before you embarrass yourself, even more.

Feels like a case of 'if your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail'. They have no influence and don't want to admit it.

"We can't get valid data, so we'll blame the data."

She's on their payroll, right?

I like that. The hard part is 'when' though, right? When must a company add or maintain competitor interoperability? Who defines it, and controls it? And who pays for that work?

Would the first mover on a new industry have additional work or costs? (like working with government to define the 'competitor external interface' they'd want to work with) Would this prevent people from 'innovating' since they don't want to be first?

I'm just spitballing at arguments people who don't want it will mention. And they're places I can imagine someone manipulating from/with.

I kind of like the idea of forcing competition sometimes/eventually, but can see negatives to most versions I can think of too. Times when the wrong people might get stuck dealing with a group's problems. Or people can weaponize things like this. Spend a bunch of money to bump your new competitor past a threshold.

Think this needs to just shift to becoming a service.

Never heard of 'device as a service'. Probably a reason for that. If the customer is paying for a service then you're responsible for dealing with the device.
Of course then the company would need to immediately replace them, like by already having backups nearby anywhere units are rented.

Then it'd make more sense to have the people using the hardware be employees of that company too. Where did our guilds go?

Oh, right... centralizing power lets people manipulate others into situations they wouldn't willingly agree to (like slavery 'light', or diet slavery).

I want the system to be secure by design. I didn't assume it was 'yet another standard' like you mention, but a replacement that would work online securely and effectively.

I keep thinking the it's dumb we don't have an officially required online identity method beyond 'tell me that secrete everyone else already knows' or 'the thing you wrote down and forgot, but hackers recorded automatically'.