I think it would end up exactly like the last time they tried that with the mobile-oriented Windows 8. Nothing has changed since then that would make an attempt any easier. Windows has far too much legacy cruft and everything's spread across a dozen different GUI toolkits and design languages. They still haven't even managed to completely eliminate Control Panel after 13 years of trying.
It's worse even than the "vital apps" ecosystem - who would leave their preferred "walled garden" when so many dials have been set to make that the maximum frustration?
"fundamental rights" implies an ideological belief that those rights should exist for all humans, regardless of whether any country recognizes them or not.
I think that if the main goal here was speed, they'd just be using Thunderbolt instead of creating this solution that seemingly only uses regular USB3, and I'm very interested to hear how this works exactly.
They're using it to receive data from the continuous glucose monitor and to run Android APS, which is an open source closed loop 'artificial pancreas' system. Some pumps (like the Tandem T:slim X2) will receive data directly from the CGM, so you technically don't need a phone in that case - but a phone is still useful as it can constantly share blood glucose data with other people (in this case, probably the parents).
Seems like they ought to use a lower-level system. I hate to see the day when someone's smartphone-based pacemaker or whatever crashes or gets hacked and kills the person attached.
You could have a low power system like ESP32 or STM32 act as the artificial pancreas and transmit data to a smartphone over BT
The only blocker for a lot of these things to exist is just someone to make it. There is no money in it, the software is life and death sometimes, the total amount of users you can reach is world wide is probably like 2-3 million. The only stopper is just someone making it.
I think this is just Google Assistant being Google Assistant - It's awful at playing music, I've had Google Assistant play remixes, cover versions, or the right song but playing out of a 'Top Hits of x Year' or whatever compilation album instead of the original album.
However, whenever I used Spotify's own voice control via my Spotify Car Thing before they bricked it, it got me the exact song I wanted every single time, so I doubt there's some nefarious scheme on Spotify's part.
I used to work at a Canadian KFC and it's just like you guessed, occasionally we'd have a special sandwich for sale for a limited time that had strips of bacon on it. Normally we wouldn't have any pork products on the menu, and when we did have bacon I'm pretty sure it was microwaved.
I don't buy that hijacking a plane and disappearing it and covering it all up, in the process generating extreme publicity, is anywhere near a practical method of kidnapping a person or acquiring a "ghost airliner", and it would be an incredibly risky and brazen 'real-world test of the capability'.
I really liked my old 2013-era HP Elitebook, but honestly every other HP laptop I've come into contact with (and I used to see a lot at the laptop repair shop I worked at) has just sucked.
