XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.ipad   
   From: arlen@arlen.com   
      
   On Wed, 26 Dec 2018 11:08:05 -0500, nospam wrote:   
      
   > at which point you told him that he had only a 5th grade education and   
   > was playing childhood games, that he was lying and you were the only   
   > one with the facts, and then went to socialize with the adults in the   
   > room.   
      
   Actually, since it was a party where there was a lot going on, we were   
   conversing at the table where everyone was sampling the expensive wines   
   near a Faberge egg display, where the following conversation, cross my   
   heart, took place...   
      
   We had conversed for only a few moments, where all these Silicon Valley   
   execs are my neighbors so we know each other well in the non-professional   
   environment (I take them on hikes, for example), when I saw exec 1 (let's   
   call him "AC") pull out his iPhone for some reason - which is when I had   
   asked him why on earth such a smart guy uses such a dumb phone.   
      
   AC was the guy whose teams develop on both Android & iOS where he was the   
   one to later  told me that there are public APIs (yes, plural even) on iOS   
   that are not on Android, such as the one to handled encrypted DNS (which is   
   the only API I could get out of him at the rather busy party).   
      
   Just about that time, exec 2, let's call him MB, who happens to have both   
   but who was using Android at that moment, chimed in that "I have absolutely   
   no people skills", to which I asked what he meant. He said "you're so smart   
   and yet you don't know how to get a message across", to which his friend   
   "AC" concurred.   
      
   MB openly volunteered to take me under his wing to "teach me people   
   skills", where I was so confused as to whether he was joking or being   
   serious that I looked over to AC and asked, "is he serious?".   
      
   AC pointed back to MB saying, "See! He can't read you even enough to tell   
   if you're being serious or if you're joking". MB insisted he was serious   
   (we are friends, after all), but he insisted at the same time that at a   
   party, it's not proper to insult the intelligence of people simply for   
   choosing to use the iPhone.   
      
   I _still_ don't know if he was serious or joking, but both "said" they were   
   serious. We moved on to other conversations shortly thereafter, so I didn't   
   get a chance (yet) to pump AC for details on the specific APIs that Apple   
   has which Android does not - but clearly AC took affront when I told him   
   how worthless iOS is compared to Android (although AC nodded in agreement   
   when I said there was plenty functionality on Android that isn't on iOS).   
      
   AC mainly took affront that I claimed there was 0 on iOS not already on   
   Android, while MB thought that I could use my obvious intelligence a bit   
   less brutally honestly up front. He said he'd love to coach me.   
      
   True story.   
      
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