I can’t see a business reason why Apple would degrade image sending purposefully- it would drive its own users to get third party apps.

Depends on what the majority of people are using.

In markets where iPhone users are not in the majority, that’s exactly what’s happening: iPhone users are switching to third party apps.

If iPhones users are in the majority, though, then people will just default to iMessage, and non-Apple phones get associated with poor messaging quality. Which creates social pressure for non-iPhone users to buy an iPhone.

So it makes perfect business sense for Apple to degrade the messaging quality when a non-Apple phone joins the conversation.

Must eradicate it.

For the safety and security of our users!

Not all iMessage features can be mapped to RCS, so unless Apple brings iMessage to other platforms, non-Apple phones will always be associated with an inferior messaging experience.

Beeper already deregistered the numbers, but it takes 24 to 36 hours for Apple servers to forget the deregistered numbers.

The two things go hand in hand, though.

Degraded messaging gets branded with green bubbles. Green bubbles - i.e. non-Apple phones - get associated with degraded messaging. Non-Apple phones get pidgeon-holed as crappy phones for messaging. People get bullied into buying iPhones.

I’m not the one justifying any mass murder.

Yeah, you’re right. If you put it like that, that totally justifies the cold blooded murder of 265 people.

Google Chat is essentially Google’s take on Slack: group collaboration with chat and app/platform integrations.

Plus you have to be marketable, which involves an interview process where you prove you’re healthy, attractive, not fat, free of mental/physical illness, and have good family history.

That has to be true for men as well, right?

“2A proponents” already don’t give a fuck about the “well-regulated militia” clause in the very amendment they’re supposedly so adamant about.

Honestly, proper gun control would mean that someone with that diagnosis completely loses access to guns - and yes, that means that his own guns should have been confiscated.

However, we get this after every mass shooting: people say that it’s not guns, it’s a mental health issue. But as soon as concrete measures are suggested that would keep guns out of the hands of someone who’s mentally unstable, those same people will yell at you “SHaLl NoT bE InFRinGeD!!1!1!!”

Regular counselor? Sure, doesn’t need to be on the bridge.

Mind-reading empath, though? Massive strategic advantage in any encounter, friend or foe! Put her on the bridge!

If you think transporter room duty is boring,

Side note: why are they even using the transporter room at all? Site-to-site transport exists, and the transporter can be controlled from any terminal.

So why, when there’s an emergency, do people frantically run to the turbolift, traverse a dozen decks, run along corridors, enter the transporter room and jump unto those little platforms, when they could just beam to wherever they need to go right from where they’re standing?

Same question about medical emergencies - why is it not standard procedure to simply beam people to sickbay? Instead, doctors are running along corridors, taking turbolifts up and down and across decks, running some more along corridors, only to arrive at a patient and declare “bring him to sickbay immediately!!!”

There’s not one single person in the world who should own a thousand million dollars, never mind hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars.

The pure existence of billionaires is unethical and immoral - doesn’t matter whether they’re being stupid and fascist in public, or quietly pulling strings and bending society to their will in the background.

Well, it’s an option.

You can decide to leave it set to countdown + calling without further interaction.

If it’s not processed on device, there shouldn’t be any reason why this feature has to be limited to the Pixel 7 and 8, right?

There’s been really no follow-up on whether or not that STD ever cleared up, either…

That’s my use case as well.

Just find a carrier you like for the country you’re traveling to, download the eSIM, and you’re ready to go.

All while keeping the physical SIM card of my regular, domestic carrier in the SIM card slot.

This simple issue was a major hassle before eSIM cards existed, and now it’s the easiest, most convenient thing in the world.

Once I saw that Google wasn’t going to honor steam library on stadia

That is such a weird complaint.

Google doesn’t own Steam. Google has nothing to do with Steam. Why would Google give you free games just because you purchased those same games on a competing platform?

Are you also complaining that Sony isn’t honoring your Steam library on the PlayStation? Are you complaining that Microsoft isn’t honoring the Steam library on the XBox?

Heck, are you complaining that Steam isn’t honoring the Nintendo Switch library on the Steam Deck?

I mean: what gives?

It’s really on American regulators to hold American companies accountable if they abuse their dominant position in the American market to the detriment of American consumers.