You haven't? How about this evidence, or this evidence, or perhaps this evidence, or...

You get the idea. The article doesn't say anything about a court order one way or the other, so we simply don't know the state there. Given previous track record, it's likely the request was made legally if Apple complied with it.

I didn't say they don't need calibration.

I said they don't need calibration all the time.

Failure to connect to the cloud should not result in immediate device failure. Manual calibration steps should be possible. Or at least a message "cloud service unavailable, device will stop working in 48h" or similar.

I don't understand why people are willing to bootlick the company in this case. Cloud connected everything is cancer.

I mean, the data is easily googleable.

Me: Prison is not the answer to everything.
You: It is because (insert specific scenario).

Let me introduce you to the word "everything" and what it means.

This whole article is about how to STOP people from driving while drunk. I'm not hand wringing, I just don't think that prison is the only solution here.

Because prison is not the answer to everything for fuck's sake.

Sure, in this case we can say "fuck you" to drunk drivers and the don't deserve sympathy, but this everything must be cloud connected trend is going to fuck us all eventually.

The problem is that the above sentence requires a person to be able to hold two thoughts in their head at the same time, which appears to be above almost everyone commenting in this thread.

Drinking and driving is not cool.

Making a device that could and should operate locally rely on a cloud service is also not cool. Breathalyzers have been around for decades, and do not need calibration all the time.

Sure, in this case we can say "fuck you" to drunk drivers, but this everything must be cloud connected trend is going to fuck us all eventually.

You''ve added the word 'more' here and that wasn't in the original statement. The original statement is 100% correct. It would also be correct for Java, Javascript , C#...but it's still correctly used here.

That other things are also bad is no reason to not try to look at and change your own situation.

That's some optimism you have, asking people to think before posting.

You don't need to give it write access, in fact it's up to you what you give it access to.

It's just a toolkit.

If I could paraphrase slightly - "other than the primary use case, there are no use cases". What you describe is exactly the use case - people running full desktop environments or closed-off deployment environments on top of a VMware frame.

A migration for many organisations would be huge to organise and costly since big bang-style would be out of the question. Lots of migrations that kick off let's say today wouldn't have concluded within 3-5 years. Would not shock me if longer exists as well.

That's a cheap low IQ tactic. I don't need to have a fully formed alternative politico-economic system, ready to deploy tomorrow, in order to critique this one aspect of the existing system.

Alternatively (and I understand that this is unintelligible to Americans), I have a social conscience, and socioeconomic structures that exacerbate the already destructive and divisive civilisational landscape that we are currently suffering with bother me. I want my fellow humans to live in a world characterised by justice, fairness, compassion, and kindness.

For whatever it's worth, I have an MBA and I own two successful businesses. But if it makes you feel better telling yourself that I'm just a barefoot hippy railing against the establishment, go right ahead.

No, it's not. Some shit in society is so unredeemably depraved that excising the cancer is the only meaningful solution.