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Tim Cook Shoots Down Idea of iOS Adopting RCS Messages: 'Buy Your Mom an iPhone'
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Women are human beigns; what if his mother LIKES her Android phone? I've known women that like Android and refuse to buy Apple products. It's disrespectful to treat women, especially another person's mother, like they can't think for themselves and men should decide for them what devices they should use. If he said "Ask her if there's a third party app, like Signal or something, that she could use.", that would be fine.
What? Refuting his position with a counterargument based on facts and persuasive reasoning not a manly enough option for you? Honestly, if anything Tim Cook says about a phone makes you feel you have been disrespected so vehemently maybe your skin is too thin to be taken out in public.
Spoken like someone that would force their mother to use an outdated android phone out of spite.
The man purchased a product from Tim's company, and later realized Tim made it intentionally hard for him to communicate with his mother, and Tim's response is to treat his mother like a child and tell her to use a different device, just to enrich Tim? If a customer comes to you with a legit problem, you should actually address it. Of course, Tim doesn't want to address it because he made the experience bad on purpose.
It's not illegal to burn bridges and treat your customers badly. Sure.
Look, I understand. If you don't love your mothers enough to buy them an iPhone, just come out and say it. No reason to feign outrage over Tim's comments because they trigger unrelenting waves of guilt so strong that you can only overcome them by acting out in a display of uncontrolled violence towards a phone.
FYI: Smashing a phone you already paid for is not burning bridges.
Women aren't objects, you can talk to them and ask them what they want, and if they say they want one thing or another, you should respect them as fellow human beigns who can think and decide for themselves.
So which is it? Are you just too cheap or don't love your mother enough to buy her an iPhone?
Serious answer to a non-serious question, but the phones I've gotten her are usually ~$650-400, so within iPhone territory. She hates Apple & Google, so I just get her the phone/os Edward Snowden recommends, which is whatever can run GrapheneOS, which at the moment is just de-googled Pixels.
Nobody believes any of that. Seriously, if you just took a break. Went upstairs. Hugged her. Told her that you loved her and you ordered her the new iPhone 14, she may even raise your allowance enough so you can pay for it.
if it were one on one where I could actually have a discussion with him, yes, I'd do that, but that's not the situation, not even close. As for my skin, I'd probably never be near him anyway, I really don't like anything about him, and that probably colors my reaction.
I actually didn't say I'd smash it.
. Just that I would stomp on it -- I doubt that would smash it unless it's weaker than I think! I do have a good case on it. That's why I said I'd brick it later, just to make sure nobody got my info. And yes, my mother has an android phone, and no, I'm not going to tell her to get an iPhone. If she asked, I'd tell her the plusses and minuses but I wouldn't tell her what to get. As for the money, that means even less.
Great that there is competition then, if you don’t want to deal with apple.
Wow your mother sounds hard core. Is she a CIA field agent? How cool is she.
It is absolutely a non-sequitur to argue that just because few/many telcos have adopted RCS, or to use different apps, that it is not good to go to. It's not the argument. The argument is one of using it because it is there and it solves the problem of better communication between iMessage and SMS vendors.
It'd be like no one should adopt USB 4.0 just because few motherboards have it. No one should use HTTPS because only half the websites of the world use it. No ... SMS is old, RCS is new, use it where it's available.
Carrier says phone has to support SMS/MMS, phone supports SMS/MMS. I don’t know what to tell ya, that’s just reality.
Carrier says phone has to support RCS, phone would support RCS. Carrier will NEVER say that though
I don’t know… “You’re holding it wrong” is prettty cringeworthy.
Imagine that, today, there was a way to send messages from an iPhone to Android through the carrier such that it effectively looks like iMessage. Folks using WhatsApp are going to continue using WhatsApp because going through the carrier STILL costs “per messsage” charges depending on where it’s going. So, even if what you wanted existed, you’d still not be ditching those apps if you still wanted to communicate with those people.
Obviously worth Google’s, Verizon’s, GSMA’s, T-mobile’s time or they wouldn’t have made the distinction. BUT ok ;O)
They don’t choose for me. I choose to use nothing from Google (except YouTube). I choose to have nothing to do with RCS. I choose Apple and support Dark Tim Apple when he says eff off and buy an iPhone.
Sure, if the lowest common denominator is SMS/MMS, then we’re in agreement. Anyone that wants different just downloads a free app and uses it. (Like those on Android that downloads and uses Google Messages, Google, like Line, could release their RCS app for iOS)
RCS had its time, it failed and is now just another pet project of Google’s that they’ll likely get bored with in a few years and abandons for their next messaging software attempt. What succeeds and will grab worldwide attention will be whatever the GSMA decides will be the next step for carriers.