steven n.

I wonder if Zucky knows iMessage has been E2E encrypted from day one. Unlike WhatsApp. 

I guess if you can't fix arcane tax laws and create an environment conducive to innovation, create new taxes targeting countries that foster innovation.

Anti-Idiot said:

Not to be too pointed, but you can use a search engine right? You do realize that Apple in 2018 only has between 12-15% of the market share in cell phones, right? Apple is good to keep around, but they are not an overall threat to the entire market, just like in computers. It is the illusion of competition to keep people buying things... There is a reason that Microsoft bailed Apple out when it almost went bankrupt by buying 30% of the stock. Microsoft and ABC need Apple around and they need their customers to think that they are an actual competitor. It's a marketing ploy, nothing more.

It was part of a massive lawsuit settlement because MS stole QuickTime code. Steve Jobs decided it was strategically time to settle because they were running out of cash quickly.

foggyhill said:

ihatescreennames said:

I still want to see a video that times opening, in sequence, all the “same” apps on each phone (twice) like we used to get every year. 

Their not the "same", you have a huge dependency on how shitty the current release is, and if they're actually doing the same thing on startup.

There is a hell of a lot of setup that's done on startup of an app and assuming it's the same between releases and OS's is not wise.

For example, if on IOS/Android you could do a lot of things up front that you can't in Android (and vice versa), it would be penalized using this kind of things.

That's why you have to go for benchmarks where you actually know they're actually mostly doing the same small tasks and you have access to the source code.

Worst self rationalization I have read in years. There are, of course, many differences between iOS and Android on what pre-setup and lazy initialization can be done to improve the user experience of using applications. 

Unfortunately for Google, Andrroid is about 5 years behind and is encumbered by an antiquated memory management scheme making it much more difficult to make many of the improvements Apple has been doing over the past half decade.

it makes these real world comparisons very important. I think it drove Apple to vastly streamline this after Android handsets with 6GB of RAM were able to best iPhones last year. 

I have a question for any Android fans on messaging. I have a friend using Android. When he sends an MMS (not SMS) using the default Samsung messaging app it will come into my iPhone in a variety of ways:

1) Into iMessage (as an MMS) with <phonenumber>@random.com where the random is different every time but is generally some weird carrier name not even available in the area.
2) Into email using my iCloud (@me) account from a <random>.<random>.com address. The "from" is just a 10 digit string of numbers and is different every time.
3) Into email using my iCloud (@me) account from a <phonenumber>.<random>.com address. The "from" is just a 10 digit string of numbers and is different every time.
4) Just like a normal MMS text message.

Does anyone know why his phone is doing this? It drives me nuts.

SMS always works just fine.