Why not work to standardise an adult content HTML meta tag and do the same for DNS. Now sites that are tagged as adult content can be blocked at device and router level by the end user.
Nothing is stopping Nvidia from creating a N2 SoC that competes with the Apple M1. They don’t need to own ARM to do that. They can even create their own SOC with a Nvidia GPU.
To increase interoperability with existing libraries for example. The user group that has some kind of Apple device, and thus potentialy ALAC encoded audio is quite large.
The format is ALAC, it’s not proprietary but an open spec. Secondly Apple has been using AAC since forever which is a successor to mp3 and an MPEG standard.
A majority of those cases are new. Just look at germany’s numbers a week ago. Presumably it takes some time for the condition to get worse and eventually lead to death.