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Well you sure know how to dodge being wrong I'll give you that. Even ignoring the thread context, your comments on end to end encryption and PGP are woefully misinformed so we can just leave it there.

Have fun toting around your goal post my friend.

You keep saying "service" when no one asked anything about services.

The question in this thread is whether iMessage can offer secure interop. The answer is yes. They just need to use an open protocol and that protocol can use tools like PGP to encrypt messages end-to-end.

Your claim that both the sending and receiving application need to be "controlled" by some entity for it to have "real" end-to-end security is non-sense.

Do you think if any Apple product isn't "winning", suddenly their competition stifling rules and backroom deals don't exist anymore?

You are correct and Apple is offering very similar back room deals in the App Store. It was revealed as such in their last suit.

No, his question makes perfect sense and your response doesn't really make any. End-to-end encryption doesn't imply encryption from one end of the universe to the other. It is what it says on the tin: encryption from one end to another. Your message is insecure beyond the the other end.

That is true both for PGP encrypted messages as well as iMessage messages. There's nothing on iPhones or Macs actually protecting your decrypted messages. Most of the on device security is optional and your messages, photos and files can be copied and shared anywhere in plain text.

They're exerting the same influence that Google did over their Android partners. They created a faux-open market with arbitrary rules that ensure their products always win. Google lost their case because of this and Apple should too.

RCS works pretty well and no, my Android group chats don't happen on WhatsApp.

> Does it harm trust in Apple's brand?

The government's trust, yes.

Objective-C is the only programming language that was genuinely unreadable on first glance to me so I would definitely agree that it's difficult to work with.

The Japanese Yen is just very weak right now for a number of reasons.

> The average consumer isn’t paying attention to this stuff.

You quite literally admit they do in your very next sentence.

You can do all of those things on a PS5 or Xbox, Sony and Microsoft just don't let developers publish apps that let you do that.

> The entire premise and point of the Apple experience is not having to be fully aware of the tech. At all. Ever.

This couldn't be further from the truth. They change the tech every year. The Apple experience is being distinctly aware of all the new tech available every year because of Apple's sheer force of marketing and FOMO.

Turning the difference into a ratio doesn’t remove biases on Instagram.

> The employees are sold shares in the business that they expect to accrue a certain amount of value and with scale get very serious multiples in a liquidity event.

Sounds a lot like a pyramid scheme

> The majority of those affected negatively by this are not the founders, but the employees.

Well yes there are typically many more employees than there are founders. Despite this, founders probably missed out on orders of magnitude more money than all of the employees combined.

They do just not directly in-app. Many apps only allow subscription via the web. Namely Netflix and Amazon.

However, Apple's deals were for the purpose of undermining competing payment systems.

Researchers from UC Davis Coffee Center posted a great paper about exactly this a few years ago: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-73341-4

If you wanna save time, you can skip the bloom (water and stir) since it doesn't really have an effect for immersion brews like the french press.

I also do finger+faucet, but I wouldn't be surprised if it actually adds _more_ water than a single spritz.

If you grind oily dark roasts, the oils stick around in your grinder and go rancid. That's what you're probably smelling. You just need to clean your grinder some what regularly. This isn't a problem for medium-lighter roasts and water added with RDT doesn't really have any effect in practice.

> Instead we use the Schrodinger electron-cloud model. According to which the nucleus is not mostly empty.

The electron cloud and the nucleus are different things. The electron cloud on it's own is an empty volume except where the electrons are at any given moment.

I _think_ this is more to do with calibrating the compass than precise location

> how can it know it’s doing that for me and not for someone claiming to be me?

By emailing you a OTP :)

Why would you say that? No one should be surprised or really even impressed that Meta could make Threads even as fast as they did. They've already made this kind of app several times.

You're conflating React the library with create-react-app which is a collection of pre-configured tooling for making SPAs. React on it's own is very much just a library with a couple functions.

Uh... yeah? Are you aware some parks are dangerous? I just spent Father's day on a narrow boardwalk through a swamp. No vehicles allowed in there of course including emergency vehicles and wheelchairs. If something bad happens, help must arrive by foot. I mean at this point it just sounds like you haven't been to many parks. Parks can vary wildly and so do their rules.

> It's that any jurisdiction will have almost all of this stuff in common.

I'm not sure how you could say something like this so earnestly... All parks on Earth have the same rules on vehicles? You sure about that?