Just to be clear, Apple has never blocked SMS/MMS from working between iPhones and any other brand. This battle is over the color of a bubble or the flair on a message, something Apple pioneered and google has replicated.

This could/would be a long and drawn out battle to force Apple to carry messages on their own services for others. This isn't how SMS/MMS work, the cell network handles that. With iMessage these messages go through Apple's services and are delivered over IP not cellular. Apple has a really strong case that they cannot be compelled to foot the bill for other company's messages and that should be well understoon and agreed to.

RCS is pretty new as far as implementation goes, 2015 in the US and only on the newest android phones. Really didn't become common place until about 2018 when most of the pre android 5 phones were gone.

Apple has already announced that they are enabling RCS messaging in 2024.

Those two things combined make it a bit insane to expect Apple to move other vendor's messages around on their dime when they'll have RCS within a year anyway and Android users will be able to see hearts and thumbs up flair form iPhone users.

The same logic that people use to be so outspoken that Apple shouldn't be able to differentiate their products could be used to block all new communications features on all new devices because that would differentiate those products and could leave those that didn't innovate behind. It's crazy thinking.

100% this.

Apple is a mega corp that has leveraged it's exclusive features to differentiate it's products. Apple is also the firm that is often refusing to turn over customer data to law enforcement without subpoenas and refusing to offer decryption tools.

Google however openly shares your data and it's android platform is easily opened up by law enforcement, no warrants or high dollar hacking hit required. It blocks data it doesn't want you to see. Advertisements from competing products, repair services, and virtually anything that competes with google will not get to your eyes. It automatically removes plugins, even manually installed ones, from chrome when it doesn't like you using them. It's also party to the sensorship issues via youtube.

In a ranking of which company is more evil, it's Google and Facebook on the medal podium and Apple gets a dishonorable mention.

I would not agree with 'far superior'. Most of vmware's features are commonplace. 3 products are IMO superior to vmware, proxmox ve, xcp-ng, xenserver. And others are different enough to not be directly comparable but are as good or better in other ways, ie Red Hat Virtualization based on KVM and containers, various Haas offerings with orchestration etc. EVERYTHING supports SAN infrastructure, many things support hyperconverged like proxmox ve w/ ceph natively and if not then support it as a separate service.

In a lot of ways vmware is a trap that limits flexibility.

Where exactly is this exemption to reverse engineer *encryption* for interoperability for a software vendor? That does not allow for breaking encryption and hijacking it. Breaking the encryption is the primary issue here, but also the terms of service disallow this as well. To touch imessage you have to agree with the terms of service and beeper either has to agree and be banned from reverse engineering it, or they would be violating a number of other laws including corporate espionage.

Look forword to an apple response on this soon and beeper to vanish.

'reverse engineered encryption' if it's as the article states is pure DMCA violation. I can't imagine Apple allowing this for very long.

Where did you hear otherwise? Because as far as I can tell, Goldman Sachs has not ever said publicly that they wanted to end it, but Apple did. Maybe you're watching too much TikTok?

This is a great example of why mergers/aquisitions should be regulated. It does consumers, workers, and the economy as a whole, very little good to have completely unrelated companies merge into mega conglomerates.

If we keep this up we're going to end up with 1 megacorp per continent with 6 ceos, 6 hr people, and 6 accountants globally and 8 billion peasants.

directly at the server's address with a local username and password...

I can stream locally when plex servers are down. Maybe you're talking about their SSO setup, but use a local login and no problem.

I've always had some sort of struggle with Linux on HP servers, usually around control of a raid card or something. Dell servers have been awesome since about a year into the r*10 series which started rough but when dell released firmwares to 'unlock' raid controllers and hard drives it's been great since, with good software support for the components.

That doesn't mean Dell is supporting the software, which is an important point to make, but I've always run a linux friendly if not focused network so had in-house knowledge to self support the software.

Unfortunately Lenovo had some misses on the laptop front, a couple Yogas that wouldn't run linux for example. I do prefer the lenovo hardware over dell's laptops a bit though and thinkpads have had solid linux support.

this is nonsense and not at all insightful. Apple Keyboards have [ and ] and always have. The OG Apple 2 was styized as Apple ][.

it's just silly to say that apple users dont know what a file or a folder is. macos has done quite a bit less than Windows has in trying to obfusciate those things. Finder still takes you to a view of folders and files and the file picker does the same, unlike most microsoft apps that only give you recents and make you hunt for files in folders/directories.

If anything, Apple makes a far more consistent system that does far less expirementing on users. There is no Windows ME, Vista, RT, or 8 in the macos lineup and no hodgepodge of different window systems changed on a whim for 'windows apps' or regular apps in WPF or UWP or VCL who knows in 2025. Developers aren't left behind when they chose some 'hot new' microsoft tech that is abandon in a couple years.

If they did full screen ads, they'd be dead in a month. I don't think facebook or any social media can survive in their current state on ~5% of subscribers paying for it and I feel like I'm being very generous suggesting that as much as 5% would pay any substantial amount.

This is the problem with social media, it relies on being 'free' and collecting user data. What exactly is the model if they dont have this? It's essentially true for all social media and they'll all get hit with the same rules. generic ads or no ads.

I think this is the key that most of these streamers just wont come to terms with. They know it's true, but they still think they're going to get people to subscribe to ever increasing prices and ever increasing options year round. The trends are already moving towards 'seasonal' subscription. Get Netflix and watch everything you like there the cancel.

I'll give you that, i didn't catch that part of the fine print and that seems to be the primary driver here. Kill off other ads so that unity's ad engine is the only viable option.

They're not free, you spend your time watching their ads and they collect your personal information. Falls sqaurely in the too good to be true camp.