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Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Apple being Apple again. Just why does anyone actually like that company?

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Android is more popular globally, the only place where it isn't true (AFAIK) is USA where the colour of the text bubble is important for reasons that defy logic.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

where the colour of the text bubble is important for reasons that defy logic.

That's just a thing tweens and teens do, it's just like when kids were obsessed with expensive shoes when I was a kid and would ostracize the kids who couldn't afford them. No sane adult I have ever met gave a shit about my text bubbles.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

That's half-true. No adults I voluntarily associate with care what brand of phone anybody else has in theory, but a lot of the iPhone owners are vehemently unwilling to install any third-party messaging apps. That means:

Messaging about anything where security is important is a problem. Most people don't have big secrets, but sending things that could be used for identity theft isn't terribly rare.
Exchanging high-quality media is impossible.
People will exclude non-iPhone users from group chats because falling back to MMS is a bad experience for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah. We usually mock apple users in my country xd they go in high debt to get one of those candy bricks and can't even afford a cellular plan afterwards. Lmao

[–] [email protected] -5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Google's marketing department defies logic every day.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Is that your biggest concern about a tech company? Id be happy for marketing departments to he shut down and the money redirected to make better/cheaper products.

While Google sucks now and has for a while, in their early days they have demonstrated that marketing is not all it takes to make innovative, successful products.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, Apple obsession with marketing has created fanboys that spend the night queuing up to be the first to get the latest iPhone, and that don't question the technology or ethics (or anything) behind the flashing toy that they crave. Good for the executives and the shareholder but as a customer?