Last year the UK ATC system crashed when it "encountered an extremely rare set of circumstances presented by a flight plan that included two identically named, but separate waypoint markers outside of UK airspace".
>they'll claim they are "Security related barriers" and therefore exempt?
Why would it be exempt?
The obvious cynical ploy is extending the EULA idea and apple becoming a phone leasing company.
Going from hardware you don't really own, to hardware you really don't own.
> The obvious cynical ploy is extending the EULA idea and apple becoming a phone leasing company. Going from hardware you don't really own, to hardware you really don't own.
I'm afraid that's sadly the way to go, because it aligns incentives... It incentives Apple to make the most robust and repairable devices, and to maintain software as long as possible (BTW that's the business model of Commown, a cooperative lending smartphones, which IMO is good).
An example of this business model being good for long-term support are the HGW and STB in France: They are all lent by the operators, and have stellar support and maintenance. The best-in-class example there is the Freebox Revolution. STB and HGW released in 2011. Running Linux 5.15 in production, upgrade wip to 6.1 (and of course further is planned). Still receiving new features. And they are still being shipped to new customers 12 years later (at reduced pricing of course).
(Please note that simply lending the device isn't enough, you also need actual competition in the market. An US operator lending a HGW has no incentive to keep it working at all since they are usually in a monopoly anyway...)
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Ideas should be judged on their merits, but based on previous behavior I wouldn't necessarily trust Johann Hari's writing out of hand - ie other things in the book.
Hey, thanks for commenting. Your comment actually got me thinking of something I've been meaning to get deeper into for a long time, so I wrote another post about it: https://tegowerk.eu/posts/death-of-the-author/
