In approval voting, you can cast as many or as few votes as you want, but only one per candidate. In range voting you have a fixed number of votes to distribute, and if one candidate gets more all others must get less.
This is not correct. In range voting, a voter assigns each candidate a value from, say, 0 to 10 independently of the value assigned to every other candidate. Ranking one candidate higher does not force the voter to lower the ranking of another. What you are talking about is cumulative voting, where a voter a specific number of votes to be distributed among the candidates.
Of course. Any such interference would be quickly noticed by the users, and easily tracked down to the offending devices. The developers (who will still be around) will be informed in short order, and will immediately drop any feature improvements on products that are still bringing in a revenue stream to work on the issue. The different developers/companies involved will quickly decide who was to blame for not following the standard, which will exist in one unambiguous form, and easily produce the fix. Using distribution channels, which exist, work reliably, and never are exploited to distribute viruses or hacks, thousands or millions of devices in the field will be upgraded without causing any new problems, especially not to equipment used in life-saving endeavors.
After all, isn't that how it works with desktop computers?
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Of course. Any such interference would be quickly noticed by the users, and easily tracked down to the offending devices. The developers (who will still be around) will be informed in short order, and will immediately drop any feature improvements on products that are still bringing in a revenue stream to work on the issue. The different developers/companies involved will quickly decide who was to blame for not following the standard, which will exist in one unambiguous form, and easily produce the fix. Using distribution channels, which exist, work reliably, and never are exploited to distribute viruses or hacks, thousands or millions of devices in the field will be upgraded without causing any new problems, especially not to equipment used in life-saving endeavors.
After all, isn't that how it works with desktop computers?