Your comment shows your lack of understanding of the issue. I will try and respond using your own analogy so that we are conversing on your terms. In order to allow me to do use your analogy accurately, let's pretend we're in a world where it's in the nature of fuel injectors to naturally degrade over time, such that if you try to accelerate too rapidly, the car will instead die. If I'm an auto manufacturer, and I was fully aware and cognizant of the issue with fuel injectors, I could either A) leave people to their fate, and maybe the car dies when they need the acceleration the most (like to get out of the way of oncoming traffic, this being a parallel to calling whatever your emergency number is), or B) I could make it so that the acceleration is just curtailed, depending on the reliability of the fuel injector, such that you can still accelerate rapidly-ish, and your car won't die, and YOU won't die (this added for dramatic effect). Now, granted, if I'm going to cause older vehicles to slow down, even if my reasons are valid, I should probably inform customers, I'll grant you that, but your specific complaint in your post is about a supposed "planned-obsolescence", and this really isn't. Even a casual perusal of r/Android will show you that the lifespan of Apple products is one of, if not THE envy, of many Android users.

The FCC has actually stated that requiring an account to verify age is an insufficient method of age-verification, as minors are able to lie about their age; just like I was 18 for 5 years when I found the naughty sites. Do I think it's logical? Of course not. The FCC decided it, so it's probably asinine, but that is their "professional judgement".

I swear to God man, it really seems like you copy-pasted this right off of the website.

Like several people posting in this thread, I have served time in prison (four years). I can tell you that in a perfect world, where people who are rehabilitated and ready for society are released promptly, that makes some amount of sense. But you may or may not be aware, we do not live in a perfect world. A good anecdotal response is this. During my tenure as a guest of the state, I met a man in his mid to late 50s or so, who I have no doubt was rehabilitated and not a danger to society. He was serving a life sentence with the possibility of parole for first degree murder. He had been in prison since he was 20 years old. During his time in prison, he had gotten his GED, volunteered extensively with the prisonâ(TM)s chapel, learned Spanish for the sole purpose of teaching English to Spanish speakers in the prisonâ(TM)s education program, tutored GED students (as did I), written a series of childrenâ(TM)s books (being sold on Amazon now), and has taken every possible college course offered through the prisonâ(TM)s partnership with a local community college. Iâ(TM)ve never heard him utter a cross word to anyone, and he has never had any disciplinary actions against him since his incarceration. The parole board has denied him parole 3 times, stating he is not yet rehabilitated. The way the board works, they donâ(TM)t have to provide justification, they just deny. And do you know what he murdered another man for? That man raped his little sister. The American populous needs to realize that the justice system in this country often does not provide justice, and in a country that has 4% of the worlds population, and 25% of its incarcerated population, everyone is affected in some way, or they soon will be.

*Cough Cough* The iPhone 4s is still eligible for service.

As opposed to how any other insurance works? You don't pay a deductible for your ER visit with your insurance? That's pretty good.

I've been using my aunt's for years. She pays for pretty much every channel with DirecTV (except HBO for some reason!?), but because of her internet options where she lives, is unable to make use of the streaming features, so I (with her permission) do.

Um... What forced upgrades? As an AppleCare advisor who has seen iPhone 6â(TM)s (not 6sâ(TM)s) on iOS 8, I feel as though you should maybe do a little more research.

How many limited warranties do you see that cover "accidental" damage like that, and not just manufacturing defects? And secondly, the replacement device will have the same warranty as the original, meaning that it ends on the same day.

Been running iOS 11 since dev release on my phone. Works fairly well on latest beta release. Only issue not fixed by, at most, a quick restart is that I can no longer stream videos from iTunes libraries using Home Sharing. It actually did work on previous beta releases. But if that's not an issue for you, do and iTunes backup and get the beta. It's doing alright for me. P.S. Biggest issue requiring restart is the phone will have trouble maintaining LTE connection and will drop down to 3G. Happens about once a week at most, and fixed by a restart, but be aware of it.

I'm almost positive you're trolling... but I gotta know. Source? I'm also just going to point out that the "$99/year" service is for several Apple-only internet stations, and not accessible by any other means (legitimately). And furthermore, the service also affords you access to just about the entire iTunes library at no extra charge. (Granted, you're leasing the music, not buying it).

Disclaimer: This is just my common sense talking; I feel like there has probably already been extensive testing done in closed-course situations and computer simulations. The problem with an emerging technology of this type is that you cannot account for the human element without a great deal of exposure to it. That's for both the programmers of the car's software, and the other drivers on the road. What your stating sounds to me like wanting a toddler to run before it can walk when it just learned to crawl a few months ago. Apple/Tesla/Alphabet et. al. are not asking for the go ahead to sell self-driving cars, they just want the regulations to be more friendly for their side. That being said, I feel you are right that there should still be extensive testing (though I think it probably qualifies for on-road at this point), and just as important; I feel as though it should be as transparent as possible without the divulgement of trade-secrets. I'm a realist, I understand that everyone's in it for a buck. Side note: Reading your comment took me a few tries when I stumbled over the "blind folded" part. I kept thinking you meant actual blind drivers folded in half.

I can't tell if you're joking, serious, or trolling, but regardless, good job.

Does anyone else remember the fake news ticker at the bottom of Sim City? Does this not seem like something you would read there?