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caktaylor said:

Why would anyone want to message an Android user?

Because they constitute almost 75% of the smartphones out in the world…

9secondkox2 said:

kkqd1337 said:

whatever the chosen method.... Apple should introduce a cross platform messenger 

It has one. It works fine. Emoji’s text content, photos, video…

There is literally nothing wrong with the current implementation. 

Google just wants everyone to use their standard instead of Apple’s better standard. 

If someone wants iMessage so badly, they can buy an iPhone and get an upgrad on everything else too. Win-win. 

Oh…wait… they ARE doing that. No wonder Google is resorting to this crap. 

Apple does not have a “standard”. That implies cross platform compatibility. iMessage only works on i devices 

My question is, why did it take them almost 8 years to sue? Shouldn't they of sued back in 2013 or 14? There should be a requirement that lawsuits of this type have to be brought with a certain amount of time- say, 5 years or something. 

I used to have an AirPort Extreme N simultaneous duel band and an Express N simultaneous duel band as an extender. When we ended up getting a new home theater system at the house, the wi-fi wasn't strong enough, so it was time to finally upgrade. I ended up going with a Linksys Wi-Fi 6 Velop mesh system for a few reasons, one being that it has 4 Ethernet ports on the back that are useable even on the satellite devices. That way we were able to hook up the Playstation and AppleTV to the router for better coverage. I'd just like to see a few software updates from them. Mainly, it has a USB 3 port for an external hard drive. Well, it only supports FAT and NTFS, which limits the usability to work with an Apple setup with large video files, which kinda negates the reason I bought a 12TB external HDD. (FAT doesn't work with hard drives that large, and also doesn't work with files over 4GB, so huge video files are a no-go. There are NTFS plugins available for the Mac, but it won't work with the AppleTV.) So, I need either exFAT or APFS support for the larger HDD and large video files. It also doesn't support HomeKit yet, while other, older Linksys routers do, which makes no sense to me. So, arg.... If Apple introduced a new AirPort, with Wi-Fi 6 and good mesh support, I would really take a good hard look at that. But, #FirstWorldProblems. 

I wonder if it’s possible for Apple to work with the RCS Consortium group to make the packages small enough. That could help make this sort of satellite based communications possible on other phones as well. 

Maybe they could combine this with Aperture and bring it back from the dead… A la Halloween and all…

I’m curious how this is different from what we’ve had for a few years already… I could already send and receive calls from my MacBook for years. The biggest difference I see is the dial pad, and access to VM on the Mac. 

Oh, great. What could POSSIBLY go wrong?

DAalseth said:

The developer who spotted this addition criticized Apple for not including an opt-out option, saying that the only way users could opt out was by not filing a bug report at all.

If this is true it would adversely impact bug reporting. A lot of us are working very hard to not let our data be used for AI training. Now we may be in possession of an important bug report but have to violate our principles if we want to report it. Many may decide not to.  If this is true, it would be a very stupid move on Apple’s part.

Again, what’s the issue? What “principles”? You kinda sound like those vegans who just like to hear themselves talk and make themselves sound self-important. 

Apple’s website says the current version is still 11.3.1…