XPost: comp.mobile.android, uk.telecom.mobile   
   From: marion@facts.com   
      
   On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 15:21:54 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote :   
      
      
   >> What do YOU call people who do those three things without your permission?   
   >>      Caring? Thoughtful? Considerate? Attentive?   
   >>      Choose none of the above.   
   >   
   > Normal people. We don't need your permission. We are the huge majority,   
   > you are outvoted.   
      
   Hi Carlos,   
      
   I agree.   
      
   There are many famous quotes that agree with your astute observation that   
   intelligent people are outvoted by the unwashed masses a million to one.   
      
   Just one of those is termed "The Tyranny of the Majority" but Henrik Ibsen   
   more closely agreed with us when he quipped "the majority is always wrong"   
   just as George Bernard Shaw is said to have calculated "2% of the people   
   think; 3% think they think; and 95% would rather die than think".   
      
   To wit: 95% of Android owners would rather die than think of the   
   implications of their supremely rude actions toward all people around them.   
      
   Only 5% are kindhearted to others such that they hit that "skip" button.   
      
   > And I live in the EU, so what Google can do here is limited.   
      
   Thank God for the EU. Not so much for what they make Google do, but more   
   for how they tell Apple that its fundamental strategy of exploiting the   
   consumer's lack of intelligence has to be curtailed by someone powerful.   
      
   The US government would never tell Apple to use the same cord everyone else   
   uses like the EU did, where Apple consumers (somehow, inexplicably so)   
   believed the propaganda that having to buy proprietary cords was good for   
   them.   
      
   Nor would the US force Apple to put in batteries that meet the bare minimum   
   for longevity, nor to force Apple to make parts available to the consumer,   
   as Apple convinces the consumer to pay a hundred dollars a year extra for   
   the privilege of Apple replacing the crappy batteries in all the iPhones.   
      
   I worry about England, since they're no longer part of the EU; but the   
   British people (thankfully) seem to have kept some of the EU rules intact.   
      
   Apple can still sell the iPhone 14 & older in the UK, for example, as far   
   as I'm aware, even as the EU will halt their sales by the summer deadline.   
      
   Thank God the EU has the power to force Apple to care about people.   
      
   > The EU has   
   > a narrow view on data protection, and they don't see an issue with   
   > Android phones address/phone book.   
      
   Given how brilliant the marketing ploys are of both Apple & Google, I   
   definitely appreciate that the EU (and California to some extent) curtail   
   their openly abusive practices, which are always anti-consumer oriented.   
      
   Thank God for the rule-making power of the EU (and the UK, & California).   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)