ediculous

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[–] ediculous@feddit.nl 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think this sorta misses the point, at least from my perspective. Nobody cares what phone another person has until they try to send that person a picture or a video that looks like it was sent from 2004.

I know that this is only really a problem in the United States, but that doesn't make it any less annoying for those who have to deal with it. I have no interest trying to convince my 74 year old mother and a dozen other friends/family members to install a different messaging app on their iPhone so we can send each other videos that aren't compressed to shit.

Most people with an iPhone just want to use the default messenger cause, frankly, iMessage works and it works really well. You know when that default Messages app doesn't work well? When you're forced to use an antiquated technology like SMS/MMS. Apple knows this and banks on it to sell more products. It's one of many anti-competitive practices they employ.

RCS isn't a perfect solution, but this is a huge step forward in closing a gap that should've been closed a decade ago. Nobody cares what phone another person is using. They do care about having a premium experience with a device they paid $1,000+ dollars for. They're also ignorant enough to blame a green bubble or the believed cause of that green bubble, which is any device other than an iPhone.

[–] ediculous@feddit.nl 5 points 8 months ago

In my experience, that's only temporary. The screen will always wake up again on United flights.

[–] ediculous@feddit.nl 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How did you make out with cancelling? Despite what people are saying here, I didn't have a problem doing it from a browser and I don't own any Apple devices.

[–] ediculous@feddit.nl 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh shit, does this work for Android too?

[–] ediculous@feddit.nl 43 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Releasing a perfect game that doesn't have any bugs isn't what the article is about.

It's talking about teams that have honed their craft over many years of developing titles they cared about working on and investing in continuous improvements, of which both Arrowhead and Larian have done.

[–] ediculous@feddit.nl 0 points 1 year ago

What's a computer?