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Tim Cook says ‘buy your mom an iPhone’ if you want to end green bubbles

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Re: Tim Cook says ‘buy your mom an iPhone’ if you want to end green bubbles

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In my corporate training, we're counselled to never refer to what competitors do, and particularly not to discuss affecting competitor sales (even braggadociously), matters of marketshare etc. to avoid running into risk of bad legal outcomes if such material were to be brought up in trial. Interesting how Apple does not feel compelled to hold itself to the same standard.

Re: Tim Cook says ‘buy your mom an iPhone’ if you want to end green bubbles

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How big of a problem is this in the states? In Europe, nobody I know, and I really mean I don’t know one single person that uses SMS or SMS-like apps like iMessage. If I open my messages app, I only have there my 2FA messages.

It’s either WhatsApp or Signal

Re: Tim Cook says ‘buy your mom an iPhone’ if you want to end green bubbles

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In my corporate training, we're counselled to never refer to what competitors do, and particularly not to discuss affecting competitor sales (even braggadociously), matters of marketshare etc. to avoid running into risk of bad legal outcomes if such material were to be brought up in trial. Interesting how Apple does not feel compelled to hold itself to the same standard.

Is saying “no comment” really a better standard?

Also, a few hundred billion in the bank might alter ones response.

Re: Tim Cook says ‘buy your mom an iPhone’ if you want to end green bubbles

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post #7

How big of a problem is this in the states? In Europe, nobody I know, and I really mean I don’t know one single person that uses SMS or SMS-like apps like iMessage. If I open my messages app, I only have there my 2FA messages. It’s either WhatsApp or Signal

That is not true at all. Even close, why does someone always spew this stuff here? There's billions of SMS messages delivered every day in Europe - from businesses to people who don't have Facebooks WhatsApp/Messenger preinstalled.

Why is it so hard to understand that your little life bubble isn't the whole world?

Re: Tim Cook says ‘buy your mom an iPhone’ if you want to end green bubbles

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post #7

How big of a problem is this in the states? In Europe, nobody I know, and I really mean I don’t know one single person that uses SMS or SMS-like apps like iMessage. If I open my messages app, I only have there my 2FA messages. It’s either WhatsApp or Signal

As a data point: Probably 90% of my messages are on iMessage. I have one friend group that has a telegram chat.

Almost nothing in WhatsApp or Signal.

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