Apple Inc. is canceling a decade-long effort to build an electric car, according to people with knowledge of the matter, abandoning one of the most ambitious projects in the history of the company.
That would actually be a terrifying precedent. "Can not pair phone to iCar™. Please use an iPhone next time, moron".
A massive corporate monopoly enforcing the use of its devices by purposefully removing cross compatible functionally between different platforms. Spineless governments don't do anything cause they are toothless and on the payroll.
As more of our lives move online and we become more dependent on technology, soon we'll only be able to live our lives in the way Microsoft, google, or apple give us permission to.