Why bother putting in the effort of developing and testing an app for a totally new platform that Tim Apple and 3 other people will use?

Maybe it’s one of those things where if you can’t tell who it is, it’s you 🤔

The great irony there being “happy holidays” is from the Old English (language, not malt liquor) for “happy holy days.”

I just Recently discovered Lu Kala, and Hotter Now is now in my heavy rotation.

Bloodhound Gang had it right; the lap dance really is better when the stripper’s crying!

infotainment systems should absolutely not be sharing core vehicle functionality

Particularly and especially when the infotainment system has an always-on cellular connection. Wired ran a story way back in 2015 that hackers had managed to gain control of (I wanna say) a Dodge (it was a Stellantis group car, can’t recall which one specifically) and were able to control not only convenience features of the car like lights, wipers, and stereo, but to disable the transmission completely. All it takes is one flaw or zero-day.

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Nah, that’s a paid upgrade. Default on the poverty-spec models is Kill All Children

Valid, but our credit card and mobile payment penetration is way higher than China’s was at the time WeChat launched, and bank relationships are notoriously sticky.

Ah, good to see they’ve come to a final solution so quickly. I bet they didn’t even have to concentrate that hard.

It’ll never catch on in the US, though. We don’t need the functionality that an “everything app” like WeChat would provide. WeChat took off because it filled in a big gap for its users. The US already has a robust and diversified financial market and payments infrastructure that Zuck won’t have any chance of breaking into.

Just like stories, this is yet another feature a messaging app shouldn’t have.

Yeah, their “safest” list top 3 were all dead marques; Mercury, Pontiac, and Saturn. They definitely have some sampling issues.

iPhones have the largest share of the US smartphone market. iMessage is the default messaging app on every iPhone, and cannot be changed. Ergo, iMessage is one of the top 5 largest messaging apps in the US. I believe it’s number 3 or 4 behind FB Messenger, WhatsApp, and FaceTime (also an Apple product).

Holy shit. Thank you, now I get it. He just made one HELL of a bad deal. I read your update; your brother’s wife should probably take away his checkbook 🤣

Don’t have the article handy but I believe it was wired that reported on the decreasing contrast between the white text and green background across several iterations of iOS.

Edit: WSJ from 2018. I can’t find a way behind the paywall. And Medium. Also from '18

Oh, I meant I’m not understanding how the value of the new house was halved over the course of this year. OP said his brother paid $1.2MM in 2023, but the house is now valued at $650k. Admittedly I’m a renter and I don’t really “get” the housing market, so a house going from $600k to $1.2MM over 4 years makes sense to me, but to halve in under a year seems drastic.

Then they’re assholes. Seems pretty simple, no?

For someone in their 40s, they’re probably stuck in the iPhone=rich/Android=poor dichotomy that Apple curated when the iPhone launched. That makes them vain and materialistic, and thus probably not people you want to be around if it’s that important to them.

Now, if you want to get into how Apple has been changing the contrast ratios on the text for blue and green bubbles to make the green messages harder to read, as well as intentionally making the green color unpleasant, there’s something there.

How does that even work? Was the '23 assessor drunk?

Sounds like your friends are assholes then. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ I have literally never as an adult had someone go “ew green bubbles.” Now, my teenage nephew? The iCult is STRONG with kids.