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by mikhailt 3y ago
There are US services like Google's Voice, TextFree and TextPlus that has unlimited text messages, I used to use it before with friends without having cell networks for a few years.
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by mikhailt 3y ago
Yea but it's likely to be better than the current iteration of Siri even in that state. They can still outsource to a much larger LLMs on their servers for anything that can't be done locally like they do now.
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by mikhailt 3y ago
Interesting, I didn't know that. Thanks for bringing that up.
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by mikhailt 3y ago
Yea, Android is not open, AOSP is. Google is not immune to this either, all companies should be treated the same way IMO. Monopoly status should not be a factor when it comes to default apps and such.
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by mikhailt 3y ago
That's true for any default apps on any platforms though. It's why Google pay Apple tens of billions of dollars per year to be the default search engine. That's why there needs to be regulations that default apps must be opti
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by mikhailt 3y ago
Because there's no iMessage client for these devices, just as there is no iMessages for Windows or Linux either. As long as iMessage is not an open standard, your access to your Messages is restricted to the platforms that Apple owns a
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by mikhailt 3y ago
> Lots of companies have been forced to do provide free services to non-customers; consider almost any industry classified as a 'utility'. Where do you live? Essential services or utilities are NOT free in United States. Everyo
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by mikhailt 3y ago
How do you know what they're implementing and not, all we know is that they said they will implement RCS, nothing more than that. If they do not, they lose their main messaging that they care about privacy first (which is already bulls
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by mikhailt 3y ago
Nothing is for free. Email is open standard, so it is designed to be interoperable from the start but services offering emails are not free by default. They're free up to a certain point, each email service has restrictions such as cer
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by mikhailt 3y ago
> Making Messages+iMessage the default on their platform whilst also prohibiting competitor apps to serve as the SMS/MMS/RCS client feels like anti-trust to me. Especially as their market share among some demographics approache
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by mikhailt 3y ago
> Including deliberately ensuring that their messaging systems are not compatible with Android. That's not anticompetitive, messaging systems are not entitled/obligated to be interoperable in US. Apple is within its right to se
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by mikhailt 3y ago
Because you're using Apple's closed platform that only permits Apple-authorized clients that only exists on Apple devices. You're still bound by Apple's ToS for their services, nobody is entitled to unrestricted access t
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by mikhailt 3y ago
> I think the biggest issue here is that Apple seems to be deliberately undermining SMS, which is an open standard Are you confusing SMS with RCS? Apple hasn't done anything to undermine SMS. Remember, bubbles is not part of SMS, so
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by mikhailt 3y ago
They did not allow competition, they made illegal deals to keep their App Store installed on other devices. If they left it alone and all OEMs chose to keep Google play store and billing, nothing would’ve happened.
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by mikhailt 3y ago
Not likely, they aren’t the same type of case. Apple didn’t force anyone else to install their App Store. That’s where Google differs and what Epic proved they did. They can’t prove Apple did anything like that since Apple doesn’t offer iOS
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by mikhailt 3y ago
To work from home, you still need quality internet. The further out you get from the city, the worse the quality tend to be. No sane ISP is going to invest in fiber connections to "middle of nowhere". ISPs invest in areas where th
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by mikhailt 4y ago
> And modern macOS has no Nvidia drivers at all. Why would it, there is no modern Mac (excluding Mac Pro) with nvidia GPU and soon, not even an AMD GPU once they stop selling all Intel based Macs. macOS is not an OS you can install on an
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by mikhailt 4y ago
> But I read about the major fails of either macOS or Windows more or less on a daily basis in the news… I really don't understand why anybody would use those systems therefore. When the install base is over two billion of users, we
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by mikhailt 4y ago
> Stopping breakage on updates is one of the big promises of ostree-based systems (fedora Silverblue and Kionite), and declarative systems (Guix and Nix). Easy rollbacks, updates are installed in the background with no impact on the runn
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by mikhailt 4y ago
Because macOS has been the most consistent in the past 20 years and it works out of the box and has exceptional integration with exceptional hardware. Plus enterprise support. (Being consistent doesn't make it good or bad on its own, j
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by mikhailt 4y ago
I trust PayPal as the default payment method, I do not want to provide my cc details to any random store that may have questionable security. I never had a single issue with PayPal. Apple Pay is getting there as well.
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by mikhailt 4y ago
Spring dev is creating Mona for Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@MonaApp It is supposed to be available for iOS, iPadOS and macOS.
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by mikhailt 4y ago
Too much to hope for, I know but I secretly hope there's a secret side project for a new coreOS release specifically for all Apple Silicon devices. Kinda like what they did with the first Intel release of OSX (they started working on i
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by mikhailt 4y ago
Technically, they didn't say OS X. They may be referring to Windows.
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by mikhailt 4y ago
Where do you see this? The article says: > The first installment will include a purchase of 250 homes in three communities around the Atlanta metropolitan area.
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by mikhailt 4y ago
Any chance for Bing support?
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by mikhailt 4y ago
It's actually an easy and understandable development mistake to make. It's usually an opt out situation, not opt in. Development teams build and test with debug mode builds, send out these builds to internal teams to beta test. Th
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by mikhailt 4y ago
Same here, I need something that's encrypted and cross-platform. Plus a decent price for cloud sync with storage a separate fee if possible.
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by mikhailt 4y ago
> These card makers now have to sit on inventory and reprint boxes and repackage everything? If it is a simple rename, they can just prefix a new sticky label on top of the "4080 12gb" with "4070" for an example.
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by mikhailt 4y ago
It depends on the location as well. In US, it's out of stock everywhere. In EU, where the price and electricity prices are much higher, it appears to not sell out like it did in EU. (As far as I know).

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