Are they sure it's not just Threads users and bots C&P'ing the same thing, over, and over, and over in a desperate quest for engagement?

That seems to have been the business model for Threads since Day 1.

Slack is equally 8k times worse than Discord. At least Discord notifications work consistently. At my last job we used Slack instead of Discord (irony: we were a game store) and I would only get Notifications on slack if I was directly tagged in a message. No homescreen notifications at all, and then you open the app to find out there are 700 unread messages in 40 different channels, all of which had no real value.

Cheap junk loaded with malware. Should I be surprised?

It's not fucking meat.

what the fuck is this work from home nonsense?

See above. I've been Windows free since. My newish laptop is dual booted Win 10 (work needs) and Ubuntu, and I find 10 far less irksome than anything else they've ever put out, but it's still kludgy.

One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison?

This is idiotic, speculative click bait "journalism" at it's worst. 5 years ago it was "Apple is still working on their own TV" and that turned out to be Airplay built into Samsung, LG and Sony TV's. This'll be an extension of Carplay, at best.

Have you ever used Windows Phone 7 or higher?

I bought an HTC HD7 ages ago, my only intention was to learn how to use it, in order to sell it, and then flip it a month later. Greedy commission salesman, and such.

I used it for 2 years, and replaced it with a Lumia 1020 when it died through no fault of it's own, gravity is a cruel mistress.

I cannot stress this enough, I *loathe* Microsoft, I have been a Debian user since 2001, until I bought a Mac in 2012, and I am still using that 1020, daily, because it just works.

No, there aren't as many "apps" for it, but the apps that I give a shit about are all there, web browsing, messaging, maps, email, twitter, facebook. And they just work, easily.

Microsoft got Windows Phone right.

Is a privilege, not a God given right. Find a better way to make money than trying to hijack my screen.

Mini SIM to Micro SIM can be punched no problem, but I sell a lot of nano sims because someone tried to punch their existing sim down to a Nano, only to find that the entire nano sim (plastic frame included) is smaller than the cut out area, and their sim is now ruined.

Prepaid service in Canada sucks ass.

Services like Wind and Mobilicity are dirt cheap, offering unlimited voice and data, but stop working as soon as you leave your major urban areas. They also use AWS frequencies, so unless you have a phone that works on 1700 HSPA you're SOL. If you are going to Canada first, look at Wind because they also have an offer where you can get unlimited US Roaming on your account for $15, this would save the need to pick up a second SIM while in the US.

The big 3 (Rogers, Telus, Bell) frankly don't give a crap about prepaid service, and charge so much for it that it makes more sense to go onto a contract plan and cancel service the same day you leave the country (no more 30 day notice required thanks to the CRTC and the WCOC. Rogers gives the best compatibility with hardware (GSM 850,1900, a fist full of HSPA and LTE Frequencies as well) where Telus and Bell only support HSPA (850, 1900) or LTE on a handful of frequencies.

If you are just going to be in major urban areas Chat-R Wireless (which is just a Rogers Wireless sub brand) has the best rates, but as soon as you are outside of a major urban area your pay through the nose in domestic roaming charges, and the biggest data plan they offer is 200MB for a month (if this matters to you). I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think Chat-R offers a nano sim, so if you have an iPhone 5/5S/5C or an HTC One M* you're SOL as well,

Expect the SIM to cost you between $10 and $20, as well as your first month service upfront.

Disclosure: Industry pro, I've worked in the Canuck retail telecom industry since '99. I've worked for every provider in the country in one aspect or another, and they all suck, I'm cynical and jaded about it, so take advice with a grain of salt, the size of a Buick.

That was my thought as well.

I'm personally "responsible" for a 500% skewing of the statistic.

1. work phone
2. ipad
3. android tablet
4. WiFi Hotspot
5. personal phone

It's 12 years old for crying out loud, let it die.

That's like arguing that Nokia should still be providing support and software upgrades for the 6100.

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