Eggyhead
Oh. Well then I guess that just makes it completely okay for ads to just be in games now. Good thing you cleared that up.
Recent infostealer malware can infect a user's PC, scan the machine for Chromium session cookies, then exfiltrate and send the data to remote servers controlled by cyber-criminals.
Just to add a little more weight to your point.
You’re not wrong (and I’m personally in favor of side loading), but this point is somewhat disingenuous. One scenario involves bypassing a reportable restriction aside deliberate negligence while the other involves inherently zero oversight or accountability. It’s not even close which approach is safer for the consumer.
Absolutley! Even more “interesting-ly” than that straw-man of yours, friend! ;)
FYI, calling out Apple’s anti-competitive bs is not at all a problem. In fact, many Apple users are plenty happy to do that themselves. The problem is with how haters behave toward the users of Apple products, rather than the company itself.
My reply was meant to bring attention to the behavior of some community members, not Apple the company. Sorry if there was a misunderstanding.
Feel free to not buy Apple products if you don’t like them. It’s your choice and I really don’t care.
I’d say the cult Apple haters are generally more toxic in their language and aggressive in gate-keeping.
Agreed. If it's a big patent troll against a startup, I get the criticism. Apple's a big corporation with a lot of clout that can easily be abused. I think it's best that the courts are handling this.
Times where I've found myself pleased with my smart watch:
- Keeping discreet timers.
- Discreet taps on the wrist when a delivery is arriving or someone important is trying to call me.
- Quick replying to texts from my SO.
- Pinging my misplaced phone.
- Directions to places via cryptic taps on my wrist (and having a little map if I want to check).
- Remote camera view-finder and shutter button for group photos where everyone can be in them.
- Having a money conversion calculator on my wrist when traveling.
- Audio controls from my wrist. (Really nice if you like walking around without a phone in front of you.)
- Paying through a subway turn-style with a tap from my wrist instead of needing to dig something out of my pockets.
- Keeping track of my health, which I wouldn't have otherwise.
- Less general dependency on my phone itself, resulting in better battery life.
Not saying you should or shouldn't get one. These are just reasons I've found myself happy with mine.
I don’t need trollish, outlandish, inflammatory language to make a point, nor will it gain any favorability to any argument I hear. I get that it upsets you, but it also doesn’t affect you in any way. Literally the only people who encounter any side of this issue are Apple users, and anyone can just use a secondary chat app to avoid it. I literally have 6 chat apps installed on my phone, and I only use iMessage for less than ten people. Does that annoy me? Not really. I just keep all chat apps in a folder called “social” and treat that folder as if it’s its own cross-platform message app.
Nobody is being “forced” to do anything. People have options.
Who did what first doesn’t even matter. It’s merely interesting at best, but is beside the point and doesn’t lend any precedence to anything being discussed here.
Here’s the thing, if I had “friends” forcing me out of conversations just because I couldn’t so much as use iMessage with them, I’d question my own standing in that friendship and its actual value to me.
- Ask if there’s an app they preferred to use for non-Apple users, and see if you’re willing to join them there.
- Just tell them which app you use and how to reach you there. If they really need to reach you, they can just contact you that way.
- Let them keep using iMessage. Poor resolution images and green bubbles will be their problem to deal with, not yours.
The situation is perfectly self-explanatory, however.