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Hey, one less reason for me to use FB Messenger. In complete honesty, I prefer FB Messenger because it seems a lot more expressive and it's way easier to access your photos. FB is really stomping on iMessage in the chat realm, and I'm sad I have to wait for iOS 10.
I was hoping that they will launch iMessage on Android. I would have uninstalled FB messenger from my phone then.
Will they update the unix layer? A lot of the CLI tools there are positively prehistoric. Maybe while they're at it they can add a real package manager too.
Contrary to those who suggested Brew, I stand by your request: de-installing anything that went in as a .pkg is a .pita and Apple doesn't provide, as best I can tell, any mechanism short of the author providing its own "Uninstall.app" to remove software.
I've gotten very close by scripting some of the `pkgutil` output, but it's nowhere near `apt-get remove` and friends.
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Seems like AT&T are increasing the caps and adding the option to have an "unlimited" version: http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/03/att-boosts-data-caps...
That calculation was based on the new "increased" cap. And yes, for $30 you can have unlimited bandwidth. And for $30 more you can opt out of them scanning and recording your activity for ad targeting. So now the price has literally doubled to have decent internet. How can they get away with that? Lack of competition. And that is what this thread is really about. Until there is some competition, we won't see ubiquito…
Ouch, is that actually a thing with American ISPs these days? :(
That said I haven't asked _my_ ISP whether they do that.
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I think clipboard permissions for applications is going to become an issue with features like this. I may be incorrect but I'm pretty sure that clipboard access is unrestricted on both OS X (ugh, macOS) and iOS.
I think I'm gonna stick with calling it OS X, marketers be d *ed.
…which is why (in my opinion) macOS ('Mac Operating System') is far better than what it’s replacing.
Looks like the best way to be downvoted on HN is to be critical of either Facebook or Apple - and to a lesser extent MS. That's the only way I ever managed to get downvoted.
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That calculation was based on the new "increased" cap. And yes, for $30 you can have unlimited bandwidth. And for $30 more you can opt out of them scanning and recording your activity for ad targeting. So now the price has literally doubled to have decent internet. How can they get away with that? Lack of competition. And that is what this thread is really about. Until there is some competition, we won't see ubiquito…
> And for $30 more you can opt out of them scanning and recording your activity for ad targeting. Ouch, is that actually a thing with American ISPs these days? :( That said I haven't asked _my_ ISP whether they do that.
Chances are the other American ISPs do it, they just burry it in the terms of service. So AT&T figured out they could make some extra cash off of their privacy conscience customers who don't know how to use VPN.
And chances are they still collect and aggregate the data, they just don't retarget you specifically.
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> use android mobile devices as that's the most sensible choice That is a highly subjective statement at best.
It's not even a preference thing though. Android phones are absolutely killing the low-end smartphone market and international users are very heavily Android locked-in. I can buy a pretty solid Android phone for 200-300 dollars, even less these days. The cheapest iPhones are 400-500 dollars. It's why Android dominates iOS globally.( https://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp ). Outside of SV, Android…
And as a result, the app and services ecosystem supports Android as the main platform in large ecosystems outside the US like China, India and Brazil.
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How about the bug where you need to force quit coreaudiod to restore sound to the speakers after resuming from sleep?
Funny I have the opposite. I often need to induce a sleep/wake cycle to restore detection of external speakers. Killing coreaudiod does not fix it, but a restart or (I recently learned) sleep/wake does.
> if you use multiple macOS machines, Apple will now sync your desktops between them, too Oh No. Please no. If I had to come up with a list of 5 things Apple is really bad at, sync would be one of them. I've basically stopped syncing my phone and desktop because of all the duplicated calendar entries syncing creates. It's something I have absolutely zero trust in them to do properly.
It was under the impression that it's not one desktop being synced across all your computers, but rather your desktop on other machines are accessible anywhere. Akin to iCloud tabs, or Chrome tab syncing. Basically you open Finder on your MacBook and there's a new sidebar entry: "Desktop on imron's iMac"