Literally anytime anyone mentions Green-Text or insists on the imessage reactions, I just mute that chat and maybe never look at it again. Thankfully, this has only happened like twice to me, but I still am amazed at people willing to do peer-pressure marketing for any company, let alone Apple.
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okay green text to me is 4chan pov stories but what are you dudes talking about
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om iphone when you get a text message from someone using an android phone the text bubble has a green background to alert the iphone user that they are taling to someone who cannot afford an apple product
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and while I think itâs totally fair to characterize this as an intentional status thing on Appleâs part, iMessage does have useful features (it adds a bunch of emoji reactions using a superset of the SMS standard, which are equally fair to characterize as platform lock-in, but it also lets you concurrently associate your iMessage account with your phone number and with your email address, so if youâre traveling and donât have access to your regular SIM card you can just keep texting like normal except over data, itâs a very graceful fallback, though I suppose travel is also bourgeois)
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iMessage was nice on my Ting plan that charged me for how many texts I sent/received since iMessages werenât counted as texts.
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dumb money cult
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money cult member
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what if right
there are apps, plural, that do e2e messaging between both platforms
yeah Signal is fine and thatâs how I talk to my wife and most other people but good luck getting the average group chat onto Signal
just give me a second to extoll the virtues of the out-of-order execution performance of the out-of-tree extensions Apple has made to the ARM64 instruction set, I find that being irrationally compelled by this stuff is a great way to make your class status completely incoherent
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you know, every so often when thereâs a news story about whatever company dido harding is in charge of this week getting hacked, i get half a dozen notificaitons that people who donât give a shit about phones have made signal accounts itâs very funny
but whatsapp is fine
whatsapp is fine, itâs just that a majority of my friends donât use it, and itâs still less good than signal, which means if Iâm going to take on the burden of advocacy itâs not gonna be for whatsapp anyway
Wtf the new multitasking features on ipad are only for M1 devices? I absolutely refuse to believe âresizable windowsâ is only possible on the highest end hardware
I think itâs more of a RAM limitation thing; they only started putting reasonable amounts of RAM for multitasking in the latter models
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The RAM thing isnât a hard limit. Seems that Apple sees two options, âmake it work for everyone, but a few people online complain that iPad on a second screen is kind of slow and sucky, damaging the brandâ or âmake people shell out cash to replace their perfectly good iPadâ and itâs an easy choice
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like the existing 3-apps-at-a-time multitasking UI feels arbitrary but to be fair my upgraded-to-the-max iPad Pro from 2018 has a paltry 6 gigs and even with that maximum any heavy multitasking on the thing involves apps getting killed constantly
I donât see why they couldnât have added swap support to the older models, though
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You could have spent $1000 on a ipad air 4th gen on march 7th of this year and missed the cutoff
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yeah, this definitely sucks, but I guess speaks to them taking a long-ass time to decide what the fuck the iPad is supposed to be
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I didnât even realize the Air got the M1!
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They liked when they shipped every computer with the same processor soo much the big machines are literally two of the same processor again
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