tehabe

I used to use an Chromecast Ultra and when Google essentially abandoned it and said okay, I get one with Google TV and was very disappointed with the device and returned it very quickly and got an Apple TV instead. I noticed the higher speed quickly, the A12 is a nice thing to have in such a device. I doubt that the A15 will be such a difference for me. But I think it is funny that the Apple TV got a better SoC than the new 10th gen iPad.

Of course it is a standard, it has been a standard since it first appeared, even before iMessage was a thing. RCS is just the successor of MMS and SMS, not supporting it is a mistake. Also RCS could be the way to create interoperability between messengers. But Apple was never really good in accepting outside feedback.

iMessage is too limited and WhatsApp belongs to Meta, I think neither is really a good choice. I prefer Signal, since it is available on iOS and Android and it is reasonable secure.

LOL, I can't stop laughing.

Beats said:

tehabe said:

lkrupp said:

gatorguy said:

Based on somewhat recent events I'm nearly convinced there's some intense behind-the-scene pressure from various agencies around the world that is leading Apple to compromise privacy plans, whole another big tech is forging ahead anyway and paying the consequences in antitrust actions on two continents. 

Yeah, let’s all switch to Android/Chrome so we can be safe. Coffee snorted out of my nose when I read your b.s. post

Except that Chrome let you encrypt Chrome sync data with an separate passphrase. It is embarrassing that Apple is dropping this feature.

Yeah dude a company known to hack users and who makes 80%+ of its money off user data is the safe route.

Funny how Google doesn’t get the same reputation as Facebook for the same practices.

Also can you give me your bank account info? I’m gonna encrypt it. 

The sync mechanism is part of the open source Chromium project, so if Google wouldn't really encrypt on the device it would be known by now and fixed. I could find one bug report about that the passphrase can easily be bruteforced, but it is marked as fixed. Also unlike Apple, Google is much more open to comments, bug reports, and input from outside the company. Recently I reported a few things which are outdated in Apple Maps, none was updated so far. Like general bug reports, which either are ignored or are marked as duplicate so that I'm out. Fixes will come or not. I like my Mac but Apple is weird.