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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • They explain how this works in their “tips” app - ie the user guide.

    You seem to think that because you expect something to work a certain way, everyone does, and that’s just not true at all. For most of the history of iMessage, they were never synced. Eventually they rolled out the option to sync them with iMessage for iCloud. You can choose to use it or not. But I would suggest that just as many people think that deleting a text from one device won’t delete it from the others.

    This is not the case of “apple” storing the message anywhere. This is the case of a user storing his messages locally on his Mac and then sharing the account with his wife. He’s clearly an idiot, but sure, blame Apple for not being able to save him from himself.




  • I agree that increased range would be better - I’ve had cars (diesel) that could get nearly 600 miles on one tank and that allows you to do a lot more wandering though the countryside that is just not possible in an ev in the rural US. But it’s way more than 20 miles. Did you mean 200 miles?

    I’m currently on a road trip in my 2021 EV and it can definitely be made to work, but it is definitely limiting on any spontaneous side excursions you find, which can be a pretty big bummer.

    Double the range would definitely be appreciated for my use cases.





  • You’re asking them to do work and open up their chat platform to other devices that are outside of their ecosystem and they have no os level control over. The security aspect of this in itself makes this not something “incredibly basic and easy”.

    On top of that, there’s literally no benefit for them to do it. There are plenty of third party options for chat out there, and again, clamoring for them to do this work and maintain a product while still maintaining security for no return is entitled and unrealistic.

    People making this argument show themselves to be naive to how software development and business in general works.


  • You are absolutely correct. I’m an iOS user and have absolutely no qualms using anyone’s preferred message app (as long as it’s not WhatsApp, fuck fb).

    People have always hated on apples Windows apps, the same is probably true if they have to start making android apps too.

    It’s literally the correct decision for them not to make an iMessage for android, the only people demanding it are the people who aren’t buying their products!


  • It’s always android users complaining about this. Why should Apple care if its users don’t?

    I’m an iOS user and I use iMessage with some people, discord with some people, telegram with some people and Skype with some people and it doesn’t bother me in the slightest to do so. It’s not even cumbersome to do so, the contacts show up on the same share screen regardless of platform.

    If the people you are communicating with don’t care enough to send something to you in a format that works for you, that’s on them, not on Apple.

    Demanding that Apple make an app for android so that you can use their service without paying for their product reeks of entitlement though.