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I do this often, too. Just FYI: all you need to do is tell WhatsApp "Never mind, I'm not actually changing my number" when prompted (which should only happen once per SIM card change). That's it. You'll continue being identified to your WhatsApp contacts by your "home" phone number (not your temporary one).
I don't have a home phone number.
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Of course, it's the only option that makes economic sense in most cases.
I think it's one of those things that makes short-term economic sense but can break a key feedback loop that leads you into long-term economic danger. It's sort of like the software industry dynamic of having a QA department. In some places, you have QA and they catch the occasional bug. The engineers take that seriously, work hard to improve, and avoid having the same kind of bug again. But in other places with QA,…
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I don't have a home phone number.
I think from the fact that it was in quotes, "home" just means your default number
You can see why I might think that forcing phone number to equal identify might be a bad idea.
I understand that I'm an unusual case, but I'm sure plenty of other people go through something similar this every couple years if and when they switch phone numbers or providers or move.
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I think it's one of those things that makes short-term economic sense but can break a key feedback loop that leads you into long-term economic danger. It's sort of like the software industry dynamic of having a QA department. In some places, you have QA and they catch the occasional bug. The engineers take that seriously, work hard to improve, and avoid having the same kind of bug again. But in other places with QA,…
you'd be right if the feedback loop didn't take so damn long to close. the primary reason of working around hardware bugs in software is that some bugs can be fixed and validated in a timeframe that precludes the hw from ever reaching the market.
But in the bad old days before we could do that, engineers and companies learned lessons when they made something that precluded the hardware from ever reaching the market. Some organizations are still going to learn those lessons. Many won't. I'd expect the latter category to still have significant catastrophic failures. It's just that they'll come later and be part of an amorphous "normalization of deviance" culture, rather than a clear learnable lesson of "before we order 100k of these, make sure to X".
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I think from the fact that it was in quotes, "home" just means your default number
I don't have a default number. You can see why I might think that forcing phone number to equal identify might be a bad idea. I understand that I'm an unusual case, but I'm sure plenty of other people go through something similar this every couple years if and when they switch phone numbers or providers or move.
Question: how do people you haven't been in contact with manage to find you, if you change your number every 2 years?
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The non-iPhone users don't send the blue text. Your sent texts are blue on your iPhone if you're messaging another iPhone user and it's green if not. Though, who actually cares about this and why? Anyway, I recently switched to iOS for an experiment and my biggest gripe is: no back button. Instead of a conveniently placed button, I have to always reach up to the upper left corner of the app to go back. My second bigg…
> my biggest gripe is: no back button I had an Android for awhile and the hardware back button made no sense to me. I thought most phones eventually moved to a software back button. I never really knew if I would be going back inside the app, to the last app I had open, to the home screen, or if I was at the end of the queue and it did nothing. Apple took much longer to add it, but I prefer the context their implemen…
The Android OS implements the software back button, not the apps...and it's always at the bottom of the screen where I can easily reach it. iOS does not implement any such back button - each app has to implement its own and the convention on iOS is to place that back button all the way in the upper left corner of the screen which is very inconvenient to reach for.
> I have no idea what you're talking about. (re: organizing icons)
So, let's imagine that you have 3 app icons on one of your home screens in iOS...
Can you put one of them in the lower right corner? Nope.
Can you put one of them all the way on the right side while the other 2 stay on the left? Nope.
Can you do anything to position them absolutely? No you cannot.
You must resort to jailbreaking or other hackery (like blank icons) to make this work.
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The non-iPhone users don't send the blue text. Your sent texts are blue on your iPhone if you're messaging another iPhone user and it's green if not. Though, who actually cares about this and why? Anyway, I recently switched to iOS for an experiment and my biggest gripe is: no back button. Instead of a conveniently placed button, I have to always reach up to the upper left corner of the app to go back. My second bigg…
> Anyway, I recently switched to iOS for an experiment and my biggest gripe is: no back button. Instead of a conveniently placed button, I have to always reach up to the upper left corner of the app to go back. You can swipe from the left corner of the screen to go back (do this with 3D touch and it switches to your previous app). You don't need to reach the top for the back button every time.
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I don't have a default number. You can see why I might think that forcing phone number to equal identify might be a bad idea. I understand that I'm an unusual case, but I'm sure plenty of other people go through something similar this every couple years if and when they switch phone numbers or providers or move.
I have had the same mobile number for the past 20 years, throughout dozens of different phones and operators. This is very typical where I live (Southern Europe) where, in fact, WhatsApp is very popular. Question: how do people you haven't been in contact with manage to find you, if you change your number every 2 years?
People contact me via email. Apple's iMessage is the only chat client I've been able to use effectively, because they tie identity to email, not phone number.
The actual content of those comments hasn't really been addressed by these quick fixes though. Does this fix the other numerous and varied complaints about the Macbook Pro? Does it change the fact that they're not doing anything that's noteworthy in a positive way? Does it fix slumping iPhone sales? Does it change the fact that more and more pro users are getting sick of the tyranny of Apple and moving away from them…
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13064089 and marked it off-topic.
That's fucking bullshit.
Here's what the person I responded to wrote:
> Seems like a reasonable and responsible solution to this issue. Perhaps the "Apple is imploding" comments were a bit premature.
Then I responded that nobody actually addressed those "Apple is imploding" comments....
What the fuck is your deal man? Can't stand anybody who doesn't love Apple like you do?
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Anecdotally, among my (20 something year old) friends, the iPhone used to be a must-have for many reasons; now, it's only a must-have for imessage. If android phones could send "blue texts" than I'm sure many would switch over.
Isn't WhatsApp widespread enough in your circles, as a IM replacement? I thought it was quite universal. Or is it a particular feature of iMessage that WhatsApp is missing?