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| From | Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.system, misc.phone.mobile.iphone |
| Subject | Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper |
| Date | 2024-01-31 23:01 +0000 |
| Organization | People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates |
| Message-ID | <l201q2F44cnU2@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | (11 earlier) <upbepu$8cgj$1@paganini.bofh.team> <l1tsejFnbccU1@mid.individual.net> <NayuN.273749$Wp_8.131965@fx17.iad> <upehp6$ibup$1@paganini.bofh.team> <upej61$1nhqu$1@dont-email.me> |
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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. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR
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Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2024-01-27 23:01 +0000
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Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Sten deJoode <StendeJood@nospam.net> - 2024-01-28 02:36 -0500
Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2024-01-28 09:44 -0500
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Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Sten deJoode <StendeJood@nospam.net> - 2024-01-30 13:22 -0500
Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2024-01-30 12:15 -0800
Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2024-01-30 15:54 -0500
Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2024-01-30 15:51 -0500
Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2024-01-31 03:17 +0000
Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2024-01-30 21:53 -0800
Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2024-01-31 15:35 -0500
Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Sten deJoode <StendeJood@nospam.net> - 2024-01-31 17:32 -0500
Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2024-01-31 14:56 -0800
Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2024-01-31 23:01 +0000
Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Sten deJoode <StendeJood@nospam.net> - 2024-01-31 18:52 -0500
Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2024-02-01 02:03 +0000
Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2024-01-31 22:56 +0000
Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Sten deJoode <StendeJood@nospam.net> - 2024-01-31 19:05 -0500
Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2024-02-01 02:06 +0000
Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Sten deJoode <StendeJood@nospam.net> - 2024-01-31 22:02 -0500
Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2024-01-31 19:41 -0800
Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2024-02-01 05:25 +0000
Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Sten deJoode <StendeJood@nospam.net> - 2024-02-01 01:06 -0500
Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2024-02-01 15:51 +0000
Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Sten deJoode <StendeJood@nospam.net> - 2024-02-02 13:13 -0500
Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2024-02-03 01:07 +0000
Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Sten deJoode <StendeJood@nospam.net> - 2024-02-03 05:31 -0500
Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2024-02-03 17:16 +0000
Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2024-01-28 09:54 -0800
Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Andrew <andrew@spam.net> - 2024-01-29 02:43 +0000
Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2024-01-29 11:11 -0800
Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Andrew <andrew@spam.net> - 2024-01-29 20:35 +0000
Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2024-01-29 13:30 -0800
Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2024-01-30 09:29 +0100
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Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2024-01-28 14:46 -0500
Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Andrew <andrew@spam.net> - 2024-01-29 02:55 +0000
Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2024-01-30 09:32 +0100
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