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Think Apple will ever agree to allow RCS into the iMessage ecosystem?
It's a Google-backed project, so I'd wager the probability around "Google will add iMessage and AirTag support to Android" -levels =)
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It's not really e-waste given Apple's recycling program, which is generally decent. 7 years of use with an option to recycle it when upgrading is about as good as you'll find.
Do the phones actually get recycled? (This is a genuine question.)
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-...
I used to be so pumped for them when I was a teen. They’d unlock a world of new opportunities.
Now I just feel anxious that there’s change for change sake to justify the resourcing of the design teams and that they’ll make things I’m used to worse all for a bunch of features I’ll never use or want.
I don’t want more features. There’s so many already and they’re really cluttering.
Like when they moved the address bar to the bottom in Safari. Bad. Shame. But they let you revert it. I’m just waiting for that team to decide, “no those users are idiots. It’s been a year. Time to remove the setting and impose our new vision on existing users.”
…it’s me isn’t it? This sounds like old man yells at cloud speak.
Is anyone else anxious about updates? I used to be so pumped for them when I was a teen. They’d unlock a world of new opportunities. Now I just feel anxious that there’s change for change sake to justify the resourcing of the design teams and that they’ll make things I’m used to worse all for a bunch of features I’ll never use or want. I don’t want more features. There’s so many already and they’re really cluttering.…
Still no ability to have separate accounts on an ipad... I sort of understand that a phone is a single user OS, but the ipad most certainly should be a multi user OS.
Is anyone else anxious about updates? I used to be so pumped for them when I was a teen. They’d unlock a world of new opportunities. Now I just feel anxious that there’s change for change sake to justify the resourcing of the design teams and that they’ll make things I’m used to worse all for a bunch of features I’ll never use or want. I don’t want more features. There’s so many already and they’re really cluttering.…
I'm surprised they aren't using the iPhone 14 in the promo images. Anyway, looks like my old iPhone 7 is finally going to have to retire. :/ I can't wait for a good Linux phone. Edit: 7 years of use isn't bad compared to Android, but the phone is still just fine, and it really bothers me that it's turning into e-waste for no good reason.
Same, I still love my 7 (which still works perfectly fine despite using it everyday, even still has its original battery and screen) and been avoiding the upgrade until now because of the lack of Home button on the newer models. I use both iPhone 13 Pro & Pro Max everyday because I do iOS development (among many other things), so it's not like I don't know how to use the newer models, but the Home button is so intuit…
I'm surprised they aren't using the iPhone 14 in the promo images. Anyway, looks like my old iPhone 7 is finally going to have to retire. :/ I can't wait for a good Linux phone. Edit: 7 years of use isn't bad compared to Android, but the phone is still just fine, and it really bothers me that it's turning into e-waste for no good reason.
Apple just released another security update for the 2014 iPhone 5s.
I don’t really get it either. You want to charge a premium for your handsets, why not let there be a secondary market all the way down the value chain for prices below where you want to go? It just means you’re selling more iCloud services and locking people in that way so that when they finally do need that upgrade it’s an iPhone rather than an Android.
Think Apple will ever agree to allow RCS into the iMessage ecosystem?
It's a Google-backed project, so I'd wager the probability around "Google will add iMessage and AirTag support to Android" -levels =)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple just released another security update for the 2014 iPhone 5s.
Yeah but if they’re not guaranteeing security updates then you still can’t rely on it. Which sucks. I don’t really get it either. You want to charge a premium for your handsets, why not let there be a secondary market all the way down the value chain for prices below where you want to go? It just means you’re selling more iCloud services and locking people in that way so that when they finally do need that upgrade it…