I'll admit I haven't ever used an Apple product and so don't know the details of how iMessage works, plus it's 3 am and I can't sleep. However, I don't recall other Apple devices being mentioned, rather a PHONE NUMBER being moved from one kind of phone to another - and suddenly what people may have THOUGHT were SMS messages suddenly not appearing. If they were receiving the messages on their iPad, iPod or Mac instead there wouldn't be as much of a problem with going days without getting any messages and not knowing something was wrong, right?

And then they turned their phone off. Do you expect Firefox to still be refreshing your tabs while your computer is powered off and dismantled?

Let people who like to make art (paintings, stories, music, whatever) do so because they like to do so without expecting it to let their great-grandchildren live like royalty - that's not what 'royalties' mean.

Culture isn't about mass-producing music that is, essentially, all the same, or producing movies and books that all follow pretty much the same script.

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Also, the shift key is your friend for names like Google Glass.

One of those cases where you can't be sure if something is serious or sarcasm. I'm glad we at least agree.

Yes, because being locked into an unhappy and possibly abusive relationship for life is so much better.

If your spouse wants to drag you through hell in the legal system, what do you think it'll be like to be forced to keep on living with them?

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Google bought Skype?

Hence the use of the word 'generally' rather than 'exclusively'.

There's a comment boycott going on to protest the Beta. It's a step up from the flood of Fuck Beta comments.

The thing is that we all know how easy it is to direct the feedback channel to /dev/null/ and not heed it. The beta has been labelled as useless for as long as I can remember, so when suddenly we got warning that it would become default and the classic version would go away there was only one option left - rioting to be seen.

It's like the four boxes; the Slashdot management just made the ammo box seem a lot more appealing than the ballot box and soap box combined.

I can't even get the comments to load, there's some undefined error suggesting I try loading more - gave up after five attempts.

They're really going far to make us RTFA!

I hate sounding crude, but: Fuck Beta.

Unless you live in Germany, where ANYTHING with copyright on Youtube or streaming services is blocked.

Seems to me like their efforts amount to a drop in the ocean, even if 20 million dollars is a lot of money.