You better not make this about Android

You better not make this about Android, motherfuckers.  Apple fucked this up. Be better, Apple. I wouldn't put it past them to sabotage RCS on purpose to keep their precious blue bubbles at the expense of their customer's privacy.

Yup they are making it about Android.  

Saw another "Tech" article about this and they're spinning this into being Google Messages, RCS or Android's fault. Even if they don't outright say it they heavily imply it. It works fine for Google users. It's got end-to-end encryption. Google wanted this for iphones too. That was the whole fucking point but they're basically telling iphone users to not text androids using imessage because its unsafe. Like Android phones are going to send icky Android viruses. This is slander and typical inaccurate Apple biased reporting. It's same the ol "everything was fine before, let us just stay in our comfy little walled apple orchard" bullshit that Google was trying to fix. Apple didn't implement RCS correctly and everyone blames Google. Fucking typical.

It's been hard enough telling my iphone friends to update their fucking phone to 18. Hard enough to explain what RCS is.  Now this is going to just scare them off anything that is trying to make life easier for everyone.  But they don't care, they're like "Just get an iphone"  Eat my ass, you couldn't even be bothered to update your OS. The reason all of this is happening, how it's being reported is the same veiled discrimination towards anything that isn't an iphone.  The biggest problem with that is how basically tech-ignorant iphone users are they don't even know or care what is actually happening or why it will benefit them.  Now this news is coming out and they're like "SEE I TOLD YOU ANDROID SUX"  Bottom line: the attitude has always been 'they dont need us, we need them' elitist crap. 

Many people in other parts of the world don't understand the RCS/SMS thing because they've been using 3rd party apps for messaging for years. The sound logic for everyone would be to switch to WhatsApp or something like that but iPhone users are never going to change. They don't even know they can. Actually I don't use an iphone and because of how locked down iOS is I don't even know if they are allowed to change messaging apps.

A big change like this, one for their own good,  has to happen without them even knowing they did anything.  Apple users are beholden to Apple's command. They use iphones because they don't have to think about anything. That's a feature to them not a bug.  Make it seamless, don't announce it.  Just make it work and one day they'll be like "hey did you get an iphone, your bubbles aren't green anymore" 

People Out Here.

So I'm sitting here at Jury duty waiting and I'm remembering some interesting members of society I experienced yesterday. First at Costco there was this young couple with a kid who looked about 17. White awkward family photos type of people. Hard to explain but from the moment I noticed them while getting a shopping cart outside, standing behind me while I scanned my membership card and every time they were within earshot of me like they were stalking me and all the way out back into the parking lot after we were done I could hear the dad (assuming?)  reciting Bible verses and making the kid repeat them like he was indoctrinating him.  It was so fucking weird. Religion is already weird without witnessing this totally bizarre training session inside of the Costco. 

The I had to return a thing at Walmart. I usually try to avoid this place but they had the Xmas lights I needed. (yea I know I just went off on Christianity and I'm decorating for Xmas. Fuck you. I needed some cheer) anyway so I'm in the return line and there is this super old man 2 people before me and a little old lady with a shopping cart who let's me go in front of her because she's just waiting for her husband. Then she points to the old man. In the cart is just her big ass purse and a pack of Depent diapers.  While we're waiting she saunters up to the man, turns an makes a sinister smile and reaches up to her husband's ear to tickle it. He doesn't react so she does it again with no reaction. She looks back at us and shrugs her shoulders and heads back to her cart.  When the guy gets up there whatever business he's conducting requires him to give his phone number but he doesn't know it. He slowly fumbles in his jacket pocket for his phone and his wife comes to help.  The cashier asks if she knows his number by heart and she says "no..." pauses looks at her audience, winks and then says "but his girlfriend does"

Fucking hilarious. They're probably shitty republican Trump voters but it was a cute exchange. 

Happy Holidays everyone.