You obviously live in the US. A huge part of the world uses WhatsApp. Only we Americans are dumb enough to use SMS/MMS/RCS/iMessage. Most of the planet uses WhatsApp. WeChat, or Telegram depending on where you live.

I got off of insulin with diet. I'll probably be off all medicine in the next 6 months. It is not bullshit.

Owning an iPhone comes with a certain set of rules. If you don't want to abide by those rules, don't buy an iPhone.

I like having one app store. One place to see what I bought and which subscriptions I have so I can easily cancel them.

Now if I have the choice of using the Apple app store OR another app store, I would be fine with that. But that's not what's going to happen. Some developers will just completely leave the app store and will force me to use another store or their own store they create. That's going to create a horrible end-user experience for me.

If you want access to multiple app stores, then Android is the platform for you.

We don't need the EU putting the screws to Apple. We need a regulatory environment that fosters competition. It boggles my mind how it's 2024 and our choices are iOS and Android in the mobile space. Every time you put more regulation on an industry, it just makes it that much harder to a new player to enter the market.

If my employer had their way, we'd be in 5 days a week again.

Right now they're telling us to come in 2 days a week, TO START. I think in 2024 they'll make it 3 days. They're getting less than 10% compliance, and executive management is flipping out because no one wants to come in.

What sucks is that prior to the pandemic, I was 100% remote. Now I go in 2 days a week. And if I am sick or take a vacation day, that's to be counted as a WFH day, and not an "in the office" day.

TO FNISH THE BOOKS!!!!

I like the idea of finished software. But finished software doesn't pay the bills. So, developers keep cramming more features into apps to sell you upgrades. And with software subscriptions now being the norm, subscribers expect to see new features for their monthly payment.

At work we use the MS Office Suite. I've been using it since the Windows 3.1 days. I think apps like Microsoft Word became "feature complete" for me back in the Office 97 days. How much innovation can you do in a word processor?

With the Office suite, I'm sure people see innovation in things like Excel. But has there been an advance in PowerPoint? I don't know of anyone that even uses PowerPoint any more, except the executives in my place that force us to convert all forms and documentation into PowerPoint before we send it to them.

Messages/iMessage is an Apple technology they developed in-house for their users to use to send messages to each other. Apple runs the servers that do this, and provides the service free to Apple users. I don't understand why people (or lawmakers) think that other companies may use Apple technologies on their devices. That's just doesn't make sense.

I feel like this is no different than Microsoft not releasing Access for Mac, or Office for Linux Messages is proprietary Apple technology if you want to do away with the whole blue bubble/green bubble crap, then everyone switch to Signal, or What's App, or Telegram or and any of the dozens of other chat clients.

The idea that a company didn't sell you a phone, but some is supposed to still provide you a service that is costs them money to run, is insane

The ice shelf force-submerges a large part of Greenland under the ocean. If that shelf melts, I Greenland will rise out of the ocean. I have to assume that will cause ocean levels to go down somewhat.

There's a FlatPak. Just use that.

Sorry. I THINK the office suite is dyring.

I don't think the office suite is dying. Most people need a semi-component word processor. Some people may need a spreadsheet. But we hit "peak office suite" probably over a decade ago.

Evan at work, if someone took away my office suite, I don't think I would even notice.

I check the software metering logs on my work machine, and it has been 3 months since I launched MS Word. I've never opened PowerPoint or Access even once in the last 3 years. And I only open Excel to open email attachments that other people send me.

At some point we need to consider the office suite to be "feature complete" and just give it bug fixes and security updates.

The human immune system is pretty smart. There's a reason that the body hasn't come up with a universal antibody for the flu.

This will also selectively pressure the influenza virus to mutate in the area that we're targeting.

Now that we're seeing spike protein in the bloodstream of people who got the mRNA COVID vaccine up to 60 days post inoculation, I think we need to to a lot more testing of mRNA vaccines now that the current health crisis is over.

Bitwarden and 1Password are end-to-end encrypted.

A much bigger concern for wind turbines is bats. Turbines kill an enormous amount of bats. And bats are really important for insect control.

The human immune system is really smart. There's got to be a reason why the human body hasn't targeted whatever antigen they designed the mRNA for. I'll be curious to see how the clinical trials for this goes.

This will also put selective pressure on influenza to have virii that have a mutation in that antigen to evade the "universal" vaccine. So, it will be universal for while, until a new, better flu comes along.

Both WhatsApp and Apple Messages do the key management for you. When someone else manages the keys, you can't be sure who's part of the conversation.

I trust Apple more than I trust Facebook not to insert someone else into the conversation. But I trust myself more than I trust either of them.

I will keep using Signal