XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.advocacy
From: walterjones@invalid.nospam
Dave Royal wrote
> Wally, could you do those of us using newsreaders on small devices a
> favour and make all your subject lines shorter, so they're comprehensible
> when truncated?
No problem. How many max characters do you prefer?
BTW, I'm an old man, where I'm on something like a dozen forums, where
almost always the problem is people write titles which are too short, e.g.,
Help!
My phone is broken
Why doesn't anything work?
etc.
> 'As of November 2023' is superfluous.
> 'Android models' > Androids
> 'Portable memory slot' - SD card?
I don't do anything by accident... everything has a reason (even my pencils
are standing UP in the cup while the pens and markers are placed downward).
There are explicit reasons for each of those, which I'll bother to explain
since I can't blame you for not understanding the dynamics of these groups.
The title is long for multiple reasons:
a. Just as scientific paper titles are long, it's there for a good reason
b. And peculiar to Usenet, it's there to prevent derailing of the topic
Bear in mind, I am well aware people (especially the child-like iOS users)
will purposefully deflect any thread topic that covers facts they hate.
If you don't believe me - look at any post from nospam. These deflectors do
this inside the thread bodies but if the title explicitly contains key
elements of the facts that are being proposed for discussion, it's harder
for them to derail a thread by their brazen denials & whataboutism tactics.
1. 'As of November 2023' is there because the iKooks mostly, but there are
other naysayers, will claim that the data is old - and when we run a
search, it will be later so the numbers will change over time. So it
nails down the date (if you don't believe me, go to the Apple newsgroups
and watch how they squirm and deny all facts based on the date that the
DxoMark smartphone camera surveys were done). The date was explicitly
placed there to prevent the deniers from claiming cherry picking dates.
2. 'Android models' is there because the deniers will claim (like Steve
much later in this thread already did) that the statistics are
different for the Android phones sold versus the models offered.
While I agree with that assessment of fact, I have no data for the
number of Android phones sold - I only have the models offered.
You may note that people already denied this by claiming that I
used a time period of "forever" (which is wrong - they didn't even
read the thread) so I probably should have _added_ information,
such as the fact that it's from 2019 to 2023 and future models.
3. 'Portable memory slot' is there because the people who hate portable
memory always claim it's only for _expansion memory_ (which is
completely different than portable memory. It's not obvious to
almost everyone that there is a _huge difference_ between expansion
memory (which is rarely needed nowadays) and portable memory
(which has huge advantages that phones sans slots just can't do).
Note each and every one of things you thought were "superfluous" are there
simply because I'm extremely experienced in Usenet arguments where people
who want to deny facts always attack those facts like kindergarten children
attack each other.
In summary, I put the date there, and the fact that it's not units sold,
but models sold, and the fact that the sd card is unique when it's used for
portable memory to stave off the inevitable childish deniers.
We _still_ had iKooks brazenly deny all the facts - but no matter how they
try to derail the thread topic, the title remains the point of discussion.
--
In Usenet, you can't please everyone but you can at least understand their
concerns and address them at the same time fulfilling the strategic goals.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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