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   Message 110,897 of 112,125   
   Alan to david   
   Re: RCS is not more private and secure t   
   21 Dec 24 12:42:32   
   
   XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.android   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2024-12-21 12:35, david wrote:   
   > Using , Arno Welzel wrote:   
   >   
   >> And if you don't need the walled garden all the time, then you don't   
   >> need to be logged in all the time. So what?   
   >   
   > Nobody on iOS is NOT logged into Apple's servers 100% of the time.   
   > 100% of iOS users are logged into Apple servers 100% of the time.   
      
   Again:   
      
   There is a difference between what CAN be done and what MOST people   
   choose to do...   
      
   ...Arlen.   
      
   >   
   > Which is why Android (not iOS) has by far the word market share.   
   > That's what   
   >   
   > The iPhone is strategically designed from the start to be a dumb terminal.   
   > It doesn't do anything useful that people like without Apple's servers.   
      
   I've challenged you to present something I can't do on an iPhone when   
   I'm definitely disconnected from Apple's servers...   
      
   ...but you don't appear to be able to think of one.   
      
   Aside from getting apps from the iOS app store of course.   
      
   But you can USE those apps without being logged in.   
      
   >   
   > Only people in rich countries can afford to be always logged into mainframe   
   > servers just to get the device to do the basic things that people like.   
      
   Ah, and now we introduce another straw man!   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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