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I think you’re missing the point. Do you think people that write this garbage call themselves journalists? Of course they do but that’s irrelevant
Yeah. Destroyed and annihilated are already a thing now, I think.
I absolutely despise that SLAM is an acceptable word in journalism. How the fuck did that happen?
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
Not if but when it bites you, it likely will not be pretty.
You’re rejecting dozens of not hundreds of ways to avoid having bad things happen, just a couple examples being having your identity stolen or losing data. These risks already exist no matter what you do, but they are several times more likely with every few months that you go without security updates.
Besides that, you will eventually be forced to update, either because your device dies and has to be replaced or because of something like software you require refuses to run on your 8 year old OS. When you get that new OS, the jarring effect will be much worse than if you just allowed your devices to evolve as designed. Updates are not a bug, they are an extremely valuable feature.
Your reasoning that it ain’t broke so you don’t fix it leads me to believe you have never written software. All software is inherently broken. Products under development for 30 years still have flaws so fundamental it’s hard to even imagine. I say all of this as someone who has had his hard drive wiped accidentally by software bugs, had email and other accounts randomly hacked, and personally worked with broken ass software from the world leading giants. And as a software developer I can say for sure: all software, no exceptions, is barely working. No matter how solid it it seems, some random weird edge case can cause complete failure
Update your shit. It’s not even that often that stuff breaks in (non Windows at least) OS updates these days
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.
Lol people who disagree with me are all jobless. Yeah dude everyone here totally believes you’re a critical thinker who drives a Mercedes
Probably not as miserable as it is to have to spend all your energy pretending to not see how your political ideas have fully doomed humanity to drive itself extinct
Yeah, it is. Also have you noticed how many typos and ads make it into news articles these days? It’s bonkers. I even see headlines from huge outlets with typos.