Yeah, it is. Also have you noticed how many typos and ads make it into news articles these days? It’s bonkers. I even see headlines from huge outlets with typos.

yeah they actually do. https://textio.com/blog/the-rise-of-slam-journalism/17517342693

I think you’re missing the point. Do you think people that write this garbage call themselves journalists? Of course they do but that’s irrelevant

Yeah. Destroyed and annihilated are already a thing now, I think.

I absolutely despise that SLAM is an acceptable word in journalism. How the fuck did that happen?

That’s cool. I wonder if they’re planning an android version

Yeah it definitely sounds like we were raised similarly. So weird that our parents and others don’t see the contradiction!

Exactly. Same. Mine don’t even watch Fox News. But they talk to their friends who do and they’re under the impression that the media has been out to get Trump and have treated him unfairly since day one. As if the media wouldn’t crucify anyone who runs for president with decades of skeletons in their closet. My mother has heard trump say “grab them by the pussy” and thinks it’s offensive to have an issue with that quote. The same person who grounded me for weeks for less. I got spankings for WAYYY less than this. Lost a ton of respect for my parents over this. The worst part? Anytime you present evidence against Trump, they don’t just ignore its implications. They get very mad.

If there is no standard pace, how can it be light speed? I think you undermine your point by stating this was really fast. To the layperson it absolutely isn’t. And apparently to lawyers, it takes as long as it takes.

For sure. I am really still saddened that this works so well. Republicans are so tribal, it just doesn’t matter what they have on him. Never has hit a point where “ok maybe a lot was political but this is overwhelming”.

It’s gotta be that the anger and hatred trump represents is core to their very being. They can’t examine it. It would mean their whole life is flawed.

If this was “light speed”, how long “should” it have taken? 200 years?

I’ll take this as an upfront admission that apple is not only opposed to standards but actively avoidant of them when it is profitable, rather than the deflection it was meant to be.

You seem knowledgeable enough to know that standards are usually contributed to by corporations and that this has many many times not ruined them. The whole web is built on this fact. But unfortunately your zealotry blinds you to what your priorities ought to be, standards for everyone’s benefit.

Again, point me to apple’s attempts to implement or help create a texting standard. Unless you’d like to instead say that standards are not an extremely important part of human society. Because unless you believe that, their actions are indefensible and that’s a separate issue from how fucked up Google is.

You’re ignoring the part where Google tried and carriers and apple refused… That’s not some irrelevant detail

Google attempted an open standard, carriers refused. Apple actively refuses to participate or help. Not sure why so many apple simps can’t ever acknowledge that standards are important. It’s likely if you look around you at any given moment, you’ll dozens of vital everyday products that are cheap or possible due to standards. The rest of computing is built heavily on standards. Standards === modern society. Yet apple can do no wrong if they explicitly dodge standards for profit.

Oh great, so then when will apple be releasing their open standard for secure and feature rich texting?

…waits decades…

Oh yeah that’s right, doing so would prevent them from pretending that things jUsT wOrKiNg is only something an apple product is capable of because any other product is obviously garbage.

We all know the reason apple often avoids standards is purely for profit. They do it knowing it is bad for their users. So let’s not pretend that privacy is all they care about. At least google attempted a standard. And yes Google sucks ass. But I have more respect for a company that believes in standards than one whose business model only works because they strategically avoid them

I’m not. I get it now. Someone else reminded me, “nb” already means non black which is a good point. I think clarity in language is good which is the only reason I spoke up but I get it now. Especially given this reply. Makes sense. No hard feelings

That makes sense and is the answer I sought :) thank you kind stranger

That’s a weird question. No of course not, not even sure you understand what that means…

Again jargon is designed for the in group. When language is more accessible to all random Internet users… On the random Internet… Seems like a win to me.

I mean, for your logic to hold up at all, it requires ignoring a very real fact. A second hand phone was already purchased. That transaction was done already, and there exists no world in which if you don’t buy the second hand phone the seller will think “omg no one will buy this, guess I have to switch from Google forever”. Another person will absolutely buy it. But even if not, then it gets wasted, and I think the environmental impact being ignored here is a pretty crass move also. I’m not willing to sacrifice environmental concerns to send a message to Google. Honestly they absolutely know how many phones are running stock android so that number decreasing would “send the message” just the same without a phone potentially ending up in a landfill.