GlitterInfection @ GlitterInfection @lemmy.world

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80% over 24 is pretty solidly an "old people thing."

As an old man I demand those 20% get off my facebook and turn down that 101 gecs!

They would be android devices, then.

So no. They wouldn't be good.

A mild copyright violation based on a system designed around the constant distribution of copies of things is NOT a parable about sexual violence, people.

I feel like this extremely insensitive rape take is the fediverse's version of the Godwin Law.

Read up on RCS' history, and current standard.

RCS is a clown college of brokenness that doesn't include encryption, and not even all of the telcoms in the country put together could make an official client for it. It is no more a standard than iMessage, and it certainly isn't as good of one.

Probably like this stuff: https://lanua.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/La-Nua-100ml-Naturally-Flavored-Cucumber-Aloe-Water-Based-Lubricant-Front-Gray-BG.jpg

This reference is so old, that Johnny 5 must be dead by now.

Today I learned I'm a fabulous dish!

Why bother with that? If you need shoes to dissolve, regardless of the materials, just subject them to my foot sweat for a few months.

Which is why the robot voice actors should unionize. It's a crime that human voice actors have been stealing their jobs for so long!

It still failed to hit projected box office returns with that factored in!

It's just funny because it's a good movie and the first one won an academy award but is terrible.

And they won it for writing "damaged" on Joker's forehead... at least in part.

Except Apple did better than analysts forecasted, and announced a buyback, causing the stock price to go up.

He lost money compared to if he had waited until after.

Fun fact, The Suicide Squad (2021) was a box office flop, whereas Suicide Squad (2016), the only academy award winning DCEU film, was a box office smash hit!

The fediverse has a built-in search engine?

I can only comment on my experience searching for communities in lemmy and people to follow on mastadon, but in both cases I am not sure I'd say "works quite well" would describe my experience.

But also that's not what I think OP was talking about.

They want a search engine for a random fact like google. It's been long true that you need to add "reddit" to the end of any google search to find the info you needed.

It'd be nice to have a fediverse alternative.

The link seemed to work for me from lemmy. I see three posts there when I click it at least.

For the click-bait avoiders: the issue the article mentions is that some iPhones' alarms aren't going off.

This has been an issue in the past for me as well, so I hope they fix it fully.

My joke answer is to directly tell them that they are not allowed to come on your lawn, to not let their kids do the same, and that it's your property, not a zoo.

This way you'll guarantee that your house is egged often enough that some of the eggs may not break, and some subset of those could be adopted by the ducks and hatched into baby birds that the kids also won't be able to come look at.

I know that Lemmy generally agrees with this guy's low effort, Apple Bad, opining...

But come on.

If you have strongly held opinions about a product you have never tried, maybe you can just not say them.

But I get it, you all want a space to jeer and throw tomatoes at Apple, and screw anyone who doesn't.

Also, I sent at least one of the comments in this chain from my Vision Pro, using the Voyager app while downloading 4k stereo gay porn and a 16k stereo video of a stream.

Both were awesome!

How is it twisting your words? Your complaints do resemble the complaints seen during every other Apple product’s release I’ve experienced. I provided some references. They are almost verbatim.

And I literally had those opinions at the time.

And comparing it to the Apple Watch is pretty damned fair. The first year sales were way lower than expected for the watch:

https://www.cultofmac.com/635432/apple-watch-first-year-sales-projections-were-outlandishly-unrealistic/

But at the end of the day, have you even tried the thing? It’s an awesome fucking product, with tons of potential. Just like virtually every review has said.

I was late to buying an iPhone because it was a stupid, expensive, product that had no use in my life.

I was wrong.

And literally you are saying the same things that I quoted about the Apple Watch, and the same things were said about the iPad.

Not all three had the devices flying off the shelf in the first year.

But aside from that, I have a Vision Pro, and I love it.

It is better than all of the other VR headsets I have used, which is a relatively extensive list. I currently own the Index and PSVR2. And I would rather pay Apple $3000 dollars than buy a Meta product again if I can help it.

I suspect this will be more like the Apple Watch. A product people liked but didn't get at first and then over time it became the de-facto choice of smart watch.

But time will tell. I'm rooting for both the Vision Pro and the VR industry, myself, and I hope you are just like everyone I quoted you on every Apple product ever, just being foolish.

Thank you for the respectful responses, even though I started off with a little bit of attitude in the conversation. It has been a pleasant surprise today.

I agree that that's what they're trying to do, but I think that what we are experiencing is exactly what was obviously going to happen with the measures they put into place. So I place the blame on the EU, because they put laws in place that have made everything worse for everyone in predictable ways.

I also blame all the sites that make it hard for me to just visit them, but less so, since every individual site creator that uses cookies needs to do that, even if they are benign, and they have to deal with other regional laws such as California's weak as all hell version intending to do the same thing.

The USB-C argument is a great example of how most of these things have happened.

Apple is basically responsible for USB being the industry-wide standard to begin with. It was developed by Intel, and not widely used before Apple put it as its only option on the iMac, effectively forcing the tech into the industry.

It also provided a large portion of the engineers who developed the USB-C specification for the standards board. They effectively invented the standard alongside Intel. It was also the first to announce a laptop using the standard.

It seems like they were building the the Lightning cable at the same time in-house, possibly to hedge bets, and it was objectively better by far than what the original USB-C spec was doing at proposal time. And since USB-C wasn't adopted as a standard by the standards board yet, they chose the better product path.

By the time USB-C was formally adopted, 4 years after Apple launched its first Lightning cable-based phone, there was already tons of e-waste to contend with and it didn't have obvious benefits for the customer to make the switch, so why would they go choose that expensive, wasteful, option, that harms their users?

The same is true about the blue vs green circles. If you read the history of RCS it's like a circus show act.

It is not some open standard alternative to iMessages, like people seem to love to claim. You cannot host your own RCS server.

It doesn't support the features iMessages does, such as E2E encryption. That is a proprietary add-on from Google's chat app, not part of the "standard."

Google had to buy Jibe mobile and push hard to get this "standard" to be something serious, and it now profits off it by being basically the only one who runs the proprietary infrastructure. That purchase was 4 years after iMessages was launched.

Major telecom companies tried to band together to create their own RCS infrastructure and official app, and they bumbled the whole thing in 2019. As a result they're all centralizing on Google's Jibe platform.

All that for a product that isn't as good as what Apple put out in 2011.

I know I have biases towards the products I enjoy more, but it gets frustrating to not be allowed to enjoy them and also be on platforms like this where it's constantly twisted, revised history, in favor of much more evil companies because Apple Bad seems to be the mantra here.