That’s cool. I wonder if they’re planning an android version

100% agree.

I’ll take this as an upfront admission that apple is not only opposed to standards but actively avoidant of them when it is profitable, rather than the deflection it was meant to be.

You seem knowledgeable enough to know that standards are usually contributed to by corporations and that this has many many times not ruined them. The whole web is built on this fact. But unfortunately your zealotry blinds you to what your priorities ought to be, standards for everyone’s benefit.

Again, point me to apple’s attempts to implement or help create a texting standard. Unless you’d like to instead say that standards are not an extremely important part of human society. Because unless you believe that, their actions are indefensible and that’s a separate issue from how fucked up Google is.

How could you possibly know this? Do you think despair helps anything?

You’re ignoring the part where Google tried and carriers and apple refused… That’s not some irrelevant detail

Google attempted an open standard, carriers refused. Apple actively refuses to participate or help. Not sure why so many apple simps can’t ever acknowledge that standards are important. It’s likely if you look around you at any given moment, you’ll dozens of vital everyday products that are cheap or possible due to standards. The rest of computing is built heavily on standards. Standards === modern society. Yet apple can do no wrong if they explicitly dodge standards for profit.

Oh great, so then when will apple be releasing their open standard for secure and feature rich texting?

…waits decades…

Oh yeah that’s right, doing so would prevent them from pretending that things jUsT wOrKiNg is only something an apple product is capable of because any other product is obviously garbage.

We all know the reason apple often avoids standards is purely for profit. They do it knowing it is bad for their users. So let’s not pretend that privacy is all they care about. At least google attempted a standard. And yes Google sucks ass. But I have more respect for a company that believes in standards than one whose business model only works because they strategically avoid them

Why would they not be?

Thread winner 😂

You’re very correct. A core belief at apple is that the customer is too stupid to know what they want, so you can whatever you want down their throat.

There is some merit to the idea that true innovation won’t be anticipated by customers so you have to take risks. But the way apple does it pisses me off to no end.

No apple, removing every port (except shitty ass lightning ports of course) is not a good idea. It just isn’t.

Welcome to 2014 my friend

Well yeah and we should and some people do. We can (actually have a duty to) recognize a multitude of problems in the world.

Some models are exploited victims of sex trafficking. I have a feeling it’s usually hard to tell if that’s the case. I think that it’s not that common, percentage-wise but it’s gotta be nonzero. Very uncomfortable to think about but it’s there…

Being obtuse and abrasive for no reason other than to intentionally shit on someone should also be a reddit thing that is limited here. It’s hard to believe an adult capable of finding whatever weird X character that is could somehow miss what that person was doing…

He is an alt-right douche and it escapes me how him constantly being purposely antagonistic for fun lends to being “likeable”. The abhorrent political views would be enough, but there’s a lot more.

BoTh SiDeS again. Cheers

Said every troll ever. No shits given

Lmfao!! No problem knowing you voted for trump with that level of pitiable auto-fellatio

The only reason I am fully confident in hating the right wing with a passion is that I spent more than half my life enveloped in those garbage attitudes.

I probably have more experience with the common right winger than a troll like you. Thanks though