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derekmorr said:

Just use Signal. It’s free, open source, independently audited, cross-platform, and has better security and privacy than iMessage.

MacHeadroom said:

This has been a solved problem. Instead of Android users being obsessed with being Green bubbles SIGNAL and WHATSAPP are both existing, multi-platform End-to-End encrypted chat apps with high quality full features, video, audio etc.

All of this has existed for *years* yet I see no mention of either app in your article.  

Not to mention Google has had 12 years to develop a dominate chat app but has developed and killed a dozen or so along the way because they can't monetize the chats if they are encrypted.

The solution exists, it's called WhatsApp and Signal. Soon RCS with the help of Apple adding End to End encryption to it will be available and all those android users with the dream of being blue bubble living rent free in their head will have their day I guess.

I'll be turning RCS off.

viclauyyc said:

melgross said:

It doesn’t matter if the UK doesn’t follow the rule. Can anyone imagine Apple using two different ports? One on phones going to some nations, and a different one going elsewhere? Not going to happen. Apple has almost definitely been studying going to USB C for years. This won’t be something out of the blue for them. There are advantages in transfer speeds. They could implement 20Gb/s. If they had the power budget they could even have Thunderbolt. Lightning is a better physical connector, and slimmer. But with Apple going to slightly thicker phones the past few years, that slight difference isn’t important anymore. It’s also been better sealed against water intrusion, but new USB C connectors are much improved.

so the case for staying with Lightning only in the phone, basically, is becoming less supportable. And this would give Apple the excuse to tell people with lots of Lightning cables and accessories that they were forced to do it, so don’t get ticked off at them, blame the EU instead. That would be a win for Apple.

I think the more important issues is the future. Sure USB C is the best option now. But what about 10 years down the road? The same thing applies to SCSI, it was the best, but hardly anyone use it now. And we all know government is really slow to react to change. So EU user might need to use USB C for the next 20 years. 

saarek said:

chelin said:

Who cares? The UK is how large of a market? Compared to the 450 million people in EU, 330 million in the USA and the billions in China and India. The UK is irrelevant..

Around $1.5 Billion dollars worth of sales is irrelevant in your mind is it?

The U.K. is one of Apple’s most consistent and best markets with healthy market shares of all of their major product categories.

Nearly half of all phones sold here are iPhones, the Mac Market share here is estimated at 27%, etc.

Next time try and make an informed comment…..