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Are you trying to say competition is good for the consumer?! That’s a wild accusation.
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Are you trying to say competition is good for the consumer?! That’s a wild accusation.
The truth is more interesting than the headline
They have my payment information. They don’t need to guess.
What are they going to do, black mail me by telling my friends I listen to Taylor Swift occasionally?
It’s more gating off than walling. If it keeps access and usage free I’m ok with it.
Can someone tell me why this is unreasonable?
Well the standard is to laser than iMessage and kinda bad fundamentally, so I wouldn’t count on much else.
The RCS standard, not Google’s implementation. There are still going to be iMessage features that won’t work.
Carriers switched to 36 month payments.
…yea and it’s Apple’s fault Chat is a terrible experience.
For sure, and every network upgrade has been like this in the beginning, but this time it’s been a long time and 5G just isn’t better in anyway. On my personal phone it would cost me $40 more to upgrade the family plan to 5G so there’s no point.
Just tried now, albeit low signal and I got 19 on LTE and 20 on 5G.
Interesting, I’ll take a look. Thanks.
5G is slower than 4G 9 times out of 10 for me. I don’t understand wtf AT&T is doing.
Which is 100% speculation on your part. Given this was from 2013 and Apple went on to advertise privacy publicly, it stand to reason it’s more about how they could market their product based on the truth of what they don’t do compared to Google than some sort of employee retention or spin.
For the above just Firefox via PC/MAC; But for normal content I was using AppleTV so a lot tougher.
Good luck. It’s been three days for me and it’s insufferable using it with ads. I’m not even actively looking through the app, just coming across videos for work and personal projects and I’m already fed up.
Again you’re assuming that’s what the target is.
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