RCS (Rich Communication Services) will bring a number of iMessage-style features to texts between Android and iPhone users. This includes things such as read receipts, typing indicators, and higher-quality images and videos.
The one thing that won't be changing, however, is the color of the messaging bubbles.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38293082
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RCS is something that Apple initial help fund the development of. As is usual, when a bunch of companies get to gather to create a protocol it gets bogged down my too many cooks in the kitchen. This was the case with USB 3 or USB C or whatever and why Apple developed lightning cables. It is shittier than iMessage and currently encryption only works by sending everything through Google servers lmao. It basically does everything iMessage does that normies need but came out much later and is bulkier and the roll out sucks because it is based on carrier and Google support and there's a laundry list that I don't care to type up and if you're still reading this what the frick is wrong with you.
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Why is bubble color important?
It helps us in the dating world know who is capable of making smart purchases as well as an idea on how much they will be able to contribute in the relationship. I don't mind paying for dinner but if she expects for me to provide her gum after she blows me sorry girl
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Arent iphones engineered to become slow as frick after like 4 years?
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Lol, they got sued $113 million dollars for doing that. https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-paying-113-million-lawsuit-slowing-down-iphones-2020-11
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That's not what happened.
If your battery had degraded to a point your phone would literally shut off they would throttle your chip.
The method of silently doing this and not communicating to the user better was bad, but there was nothing wrong with what they did.
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Yes apple should have had peoples phones shut off that's clearly the best solution
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Why doesnt android have this problem/gey sued over it? Curious...
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https://www.samsung.com/us/support/galaxy-battery/care-and-maintenance
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mfw I can put a new battery in my phone bc it's not a piece of shit designed so that consumers cant repair
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That's not how batteries work lol.
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Yes it is
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/209815/do-lithium-ion-batteries-just-lose-capacity-over-time-or-do-they-also-become-mor
This becomes more pronounced during the cold as well
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/263036/why-charging-li-ion-batteries-in-cold-temperatures-would-harm-them
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Thats what they claimed but "degraded" was like 80% battery health.
They didnt want people to get the battery replaced instead of buying new.
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Yes 80% battery health is around 2-3 years of usage which is when it stops delivering in-spec voltages
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208387
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Apple customers are truly something else
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you can look down this thread of people making shit up about apple when I've already admitted they do real dumb shit.
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Source?
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the iPhone 12 mini (small, base model, three years old) has a cpu that's effectively the same as Samsungs current year flagship.
https://browser.geekbench.com/ios_devices/iphone-12-mini
https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/3587153
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This doesnt prove anything, samsung phones could also become slower intentionally after a few years
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The problem is software is a moving target in 2023.
Back in the day you'd install a word processor and it would run that same version of the word processor for years. Nothing changes, demands are static.
In 2023, everything is done on the internet and everyone expects to do more every year. Every app on your phone was probably updated in the last month with more features that will tax the phones specs just ever so slightly more.
Should developers give more of a shit? Probably. but the ones trying to make money are probably going to choose tools that speed up their dev time, not save you cpu time.
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Nobody is asking the phone to do more, developers are putting more in that nobody requested.
So many apps now have a feature where if you shake the phone, it assumes you're frustrated and asks if you want to file a bug report. Snapchat does not need to be monitoring my phone's inertia sensors.
It's actually a native function in Android, .withReportOnShakeEnabled
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I think like many sensors, it's always reading them and just sends the data if an app requests - e.g. GPS or rotation.
I mean we're on a silly website where ppl still request new features. I don't disagree that Microsoft Word from 20 years ago probably had every word processing feature we needed but there's a long tail on software.
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I get that, but the app is using extra processing cycles to check and act upon the results. It's a bloat problem.
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Webpages getting more bloated every year is what you'll feel most directly.
https://www.webbloatscore.com
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Gaslighting
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Absolutely not.
Its 18 months (they bricked one of mine with software updates)
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I always see Apple shit on for that but honestly, it's perfectly understandable to limit power usage on old batteries, hopefully letting the phone last most of the day.
The alternative is this:
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The alternative is getting the battery replaced, which is really not that big a deal.
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Yeah let me pay dealership prices on a 4 year old, out of warranty phone.
Apple is terrible about replacement device support. Swapping genuine hardware from two identical phones and it would fault out.
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I miss popping a phone's backplate off and just putting in a fresh battery so bad
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You could schedule an Apple Store battery replacement for a 5s, a phone from 2014, and get it's battery replaced for $69.
This is the standard cost for most models. This 2014 model also got a security patch in January.
https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/battery-replacement
https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/24/23569600/apple-iphone-5s-security-update-ios-12
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It costs like $50 to get a battery replaced here in Europe on any iphone model with a new genuine part and including labour at one of any licenced phone repair shops like iFixit. You just hand your phone over at the shop for like an hour, go watch a movie or somehting and come back to collect your phone afterwards. Right to repair legislation means Apple has to allow this by law or get fined billions. It works great.
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Id rather have 6 hours battery than a slow af phone tbh
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