socalrey

Having a read/unread marking feature for each article would be awesome. Akin to the blue dot in iMessage. 

paisleydisco said:

"customers don't know how to subscribe to music services outside of an app"


outside of these tech forums, most people -- probably 90% and above LOL -- are really really really tech dumb af.

I mean really really dumb. 

Did I mention really dumb?

In my experience, as someone who helps everyone I know with their Apple devices (they have all put an “i” in front of my name lol), I also find this to be the case. Most people not only know nothing about any of this, but they just don’t care. Not because they aren’t smart enough or savvy enough to understand, but because all they care about is that their phone works. Where the money goes? Nuances of security? Spats between this company and that company? If I bring it up I’m just a nerd or a fan boy or whatever else. But as these outside companies start making more and more cracks in the walls of Apple’s garden and sh*t starts ‘breaking’ or they get spoofed by some weird side loaded app, you better believe that’s when they will come running and ask me to fix it. And that’s when I will say to just stay in the walled garden. It’s called a garden for a reason! 

This all smells like a form of tech piracy to me. How can the dev team promise a fix without Apple's legal and technical blessing (which is NEVER going to happen). Do some Apple users enjoy the panache that comes with blue texts, obviously yes (p.s. unless you're a teenager, how juvenile can you be). But I do believe that one of Apple's reasons to develop iMessage began with their authentic desire to give its users security. Is it annoying when a green texter prevents certain features in an otherwise all blue chain, sure. But I am sure as heck not trading in security for that annoyance to go away and I am DEFINITELY not going to trade it in so some Android user can feel cool (again, how old are you?). I rely on blue texts to be assured of secure iMessage communication, and thank you Apple for this visual distinction. If some third party can develop something to essentially lead me into believing something that isn't, I'm going to have very big problem with that. There are people saying that Beeper makes communication with Android users more secure just as Beeper is tweeting that if you get a message from Apple saying a Mac now has access to iMessage "it's because Apple doesn't know how to say that "Beeper" has re-established its connection". So now Apple is sending out false or misleading security messages? Oh joy! Moreover, my friends phone number was stolen from him via someone walking into the at&t store and the thief quickly ported his number onto another phone and started using it to phish and scam. It was a nightmare. What happens if that criminal can subsequently hijack "the secure blue text" via this Beeper app. Nope.