Comment on Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU - The Verge

• TimeSquirrel@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  where the colour of the text bubble is important for reasons that defy logic.

  That's just a thing tweens and teens do, it's just like when kids were obsessed with expensive shoes when I was a kid. No sane adult I have ever met gave a shit about my text bubbles.

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  • Xatolos@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lucky you.

    Had to call a company for support of a $40,000 piece of equipment. They were at first willing to help and asked to FaceTime the call. When I told them I don’t have an iPhone, I was pretty much shut down and told to just call a local repair man. (The repair man, not associated with them, helped me completely over the phone. Didn’t need video or anything)

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    • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If that company is serious about conducting professional business for any length of time, they'll learn better soon enough. In my industry, we still use dialup modems to remotely manage some equipment.

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      • Xatolos@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s one of the leading companies in restaurant equipment. Worth a little $750 million. It’s a serious company and they didn’t care.

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  • Zak@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s half-true. No adults I voluntarily associate with care what brand of phone anybody else has in theory, but a lot of the iPhone owners are vehemently unwilling to install any third-party messaging apps. That means:

    • Messaging about anything where security is important is a problem. Most people don’t have big secrets, but sending things that could be used for identity theft isn’t terribly rare.
    • Exchanging high-quality media is impossible.
    • People will exclude non-iPhone users from group chats because falling back to MMS is a bad experience for everyone.

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• Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah. We usually mock apple users in my country xd they go in high debt to get one of those candy bricks and can’t even afford a cellular plan afterwards. Lmao

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• tonytins@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Google’s marketing department defies logic every day.

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  • SkippingRelax@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is that your biggest concern about a tech company? Id be happy for marketing departments to he shut down and the money redirected to make better/cheaper products.

    While Google sucks now and has for a while, in their early days they have demonstrated that marketing is not all it takes to make innovative, successful products.

    On the opposite end of the spectrum, Apple obsession with marketing has created fanboys that spend the night queuing up to be the first to get the latest iPhone, and that don’t question the technology or ethics (or anything) behind the flashing toy that they crave. Good for the executives and the shareholder but as a customer?

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