re: Apple Or Android? May The Battle Continue.

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It's the most awful phone system I have ever used. My last job had Android phones and it was the biggest piece of shite garbage I have ever used for a phone.

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based on the thread you just started about reading directions, im going to assume you have a low threshold for learning/figuring things out, the work phone was different from the phone experience you were used to. unable to cope, frustration sets in and you declare it a "piece of shite".

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Yea dude. It’s a piece of shite. The Android operating system fricking sucks compared to iPhone iOS. Period. I had to use android for over 2 years with my previous job and I hated the phone more after 2 years than I did the first day I received it.

Samsung Galaxy S22 - horrible phone with a horrible operating system.

And by the way, I used my work phone 100 times more than I used my personal iPhone so I kind of understand how to use the android after two years of misery with it so frick off. Yea, I’ll say it again… Android is fricking garbage.

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Try a Pixel.

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based on the thread you just started about reading directions, im going to assume you have a low threshold for learning/figuring things out, the work phone was different from the phone experience you were used to. unable to cope, frustration sets in and you declare it a "piece of shite".

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So if it takes a wall of text to figure it out, that's OK?

slow friday and recently watched the MKBHD podcast talking about the Apple/DOJ case so decided to skim the complaint DOJ filing. its long and i haven't read the whole thing but there is some good stuff in the first several pages. though there are a few already included in the filing, another interesting thing from the case is we might get to see some pretty damning emails from apple leadership.

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Try a Pixel.

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This seems like a better option for him. Limited options to mess up, similar to an iphone.

i already have, im still waiting on you to read an econ 101 book to realize it. but, you should be able to look at the linked filing and find how the DOJ is justifying its antitrust claims. whether or not you agree is simply your prerogative.

the whole filing is about how apple's anticompetitive behavior is allowing them to abuse their customers. its not about letting "poors" into the walled garden/prison. its about letting you out, if you so choose, at a reduced cost to switching. which in turn spurs competition and all the good stuff that comes with that for the consumers. android users are only tangentially related to the case. specifically with relation to messaging, android users benefit as a side effect of apple being forced to integrate with a modern more universal messaging protocol, which happens to not shockingly be RCS. all as a way of lowering switching costs to existing iphone users. let me know where to stop:

1. Obtaining a monopoly by superior products, innovation, or business acumen is legal; however, the same result achieved by exclusionary or predatory acts may raise antitrust concerns.
2. Exclusionary conduct can include switching costs (high costs that users of a product would face in switching to a substitute)
3. Switching costs can be monetary, psychological, effort-based, and time-based.
4. Social stigma can be a psycological switching cost for apple users moving to a competitor.
5. The social stigma does not come from apple creating a better messaging experience solely on merit. It comes from excluding iphone users from messaging non-iphone users in a secure and modern fashion.

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Anyway, I can't wait for Apple to substantively respond. Will be quite interesting to see how leftist company like Apple handles this leftist nonsense.

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i don't think they necessarily have to. even if they do it will be more meaningless spin on how they're acting in the users' best interest despite openly wanting to maintain a bare minimum experience for users in the interests of their bottom line:

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“In looking at it with hindsight, I think going forward we need to set a stake in the ground for what features we think are ‘good enough’ for the consumer. I would argue we’re already doing *more* than what would have been good enough. But we find it very hard to regress our product features YOY [year over year].” Existing features “would have been good enough today if we hadn’t introduced [them] already,” and “anything new and especially expensive needs to be rigorously challenged before it’s allowed into the consumer phone.”

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they'll probably just end up settling the case to some lesser degree like the tech giants before them in the many similar cases already played out under various political regimes.