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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper
Date: 31 Jan 2024 23:01:22 GMT
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On 2024-01-31, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> On 2024-01-31 14:32, Sten deJoode wrote:
>> On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 15:35:57 -0500, Alan Browne wrote:
>> 
>>>> Nope, iMessage doesn't do MMS, yet Android users want to use
>>>> iMessage.
>>>
>>> Exactly.  Though germane to note that this does not stop iPhones
>>> from doing MMS.  For that matter, because of Apple superior
>>> integration across devices, (aka: "the ecosystem") it permits a Mac
>>> or other Apple device's Message app to also do MMS providing that
>>> person also has an iPhone to handle the telecom part.
>> 
>> Once you treat the phone simply as a dumb terminal, all that is
>> possible.
>> 
>> All the good things you like about the iPhone are because you like
>> the mainframe servers which treat the iPhone as if it's just a dumb
>> terminal.
>
> Does WhatsApp having servers mean that it treats the phone as a "dumb
> terminal", Arlen?

Yep, in his haste to disparage iPhones, little Arlen here is
inadvertently claiming that all mobile phones that connect to the
internet are dumb terminals. He's doing this in a lame attempt to
disrupt the adult conversation, but it's not having the effect he wants
because the rest of us are actual adults who are interested in honest
discourse.

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