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   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2026-01-19 15:26, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 1/19/26 5:26 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >> On 2026-01-19 14:17, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   >>> On 1/19/26 12:18 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >>>> On 2026-01-18 22:23, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   >>>>> On 1/19/26 1:12 AM, Alan wrote:   
   >>>>>> On 2026-01-18 21:52, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>>>>>> On Sun, 18 Jan 2026 20:05:08 +1300, Your Name wrote:   
   >>>>>>>> On 2026-01-18 06:24:10 +0000, Brock McNuggets said:   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> Dec 2017: Reddit user and Geekbench proved that the software was   
   >>>>>>>>> intentionally slowing down older iPhones.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> Other than the usual few loud-mouthed whiners (most of whom it   
   >>>>>>>> wasn't actually a problem for), nobody notice nor cared.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> It seems entirely reasonable to me that no Iphone user actually   
   >>>>>>> noticed, let alone cared about, such a performance issue. Do *any*   
   >>>>>>> Iphone users actually do anything important with their devices, that   
   >>>>>>> might have been affected by performance limitations? They bought   
   >>>>>>> them   
   >>>>>>> just as showpieces -- items of adornment, to be flaunted rather than   
   >>>>>>> used. “Look at me! I have no idea how this actually works, but it   
   >>>>>>> looks pretty! I have more money than sense!”   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> You really are an asshole...   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> ...aren't you?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> :-)   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Unlike yourself.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Yes. Very much unlike.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Do you see me insulting entire groups of people based on their   
   >>>> technology choices? Ever?   
   >>>   
   >>> Not openly.   
   >>   
   >> So that would be "no", but you lack the balls to just say so.   
   >   
   >   
   > OK, I haven't seen it from you, period.   
      
   Thank you.   
      
   Was that really so hard?   
      
   >   
   >   
   >>> That being said, your defenses and promotions of macOS imply that   
   >>> there's some inherent value in running it that justifies making poor   
   >>> decisions in buying hardware.  I can't agree with that.   
   >   
   >> Fine. Don't buy one.   
   >>   
   >> But many people find inherent value in the device AS A WHOLE.   
   >>   
   >> That's just a fact.   
   >>   
   >> The suggestion that, "Iphone users [don't] actually do anything   
   >> important with their devices" is just so much bullshit.   
   >>   
   >> Agreed?   
   >>   
   >> That they, "bought them just as showpieces" is in almost every case   
   >> bullshit.   
   >>   
   >> Agreed?   
   >   
   >   
   > To my knowledge, the average smartphone user is about the same whether   
   > with the higher-end-Android or iOS devices.   
      
   Right.   
      
   And people who buy iPhones don't to less (or more) that people who buy   
   Androids   
      
   >   
   >   
   >> And clue time:   
   >>   
   >> Almost every person who buys a computing device...   
   >>   
   >> ...including those who use Linux and even those who build their   
   >> machines from components...   
   >>   
   >> ..."have no idea how [they] actually work."   
   >>   
   >> Just like people who buy cars don't know how internal combustion   
   >> engines work.   
   >   
   >   
   > I know enough about how they work to know that even for developers that   
   > kind of knowledge is of questionable importance.   
      
   Exactly.   
      
   >   
   >   
   >> So, you have a chance here to show that you're not quite the asshole   
   >> Lawrence is.   
   >>   
   >> Will you step up?   
   >>   
   >> I very much doubt it.   
   >   
   >   
   > It's not that I think you're really so bad, Alan, but Lawrence isn't so   
   > bad, a little preoccupied with Linux and other such software, but I   
   > don't blame him when it's really the only viable platform to me.   
   I'm sorry, but his way of thinking about people is revealed in his posts...   
      
   ...and that way of thinking is the way of an asshole.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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