what I like about stories like this one is the aspect of missed opportunities. In one sentence: Use sea water instead of drinking water, and, hey presto - desalination. Not that simple, you say? I say: That's what the "engineering" in "engineering company" is for.
... how Cuba, being embargoed and unable to purchase regular antibiotics, specialised in this, and was so successful they had the odd US tourist visiting to get treatment for some intractable infection that western medicine just wasn't quite up to. Thought that was amusing then, still do now.
Bullshit. Try that argument on Twitter, but on/. people recognise your implicit argument that reparability and theft-profing are mutually exclusive for what it is: Bullshit.
Maybe, just maybe, Apple thinks it'll give them a worthwhile advantage over their competitors - but it's far more likely they want to "support" it, so they can influence it, so they can change it, just a tiny little bit, so as to render it as useful as a eunuch on a stud farm.
... bat-shit insane than launching a Twitter competitor as app-only, is to launch it only in some regions worldwide, and not all at once. This thing deserves to fail, hard.