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Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper

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)
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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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JR

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Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Patrick <patrick@oleary.com> - 2024-01-27 02:00 -0600
  Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2024-01-27 09:11 +0100
    Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2024-01-27 16:02 +0000
      Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Nick Charles <the.thin@man> - 2024-01-27 11:51 -0500
        Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Bud Frede <frede@mouse-potato.com> - 2024-01-27 14:43 -0500
          Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2024-01-27 20:21 +0000
          Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Sten deJoode <StendeJood@nospam.net> - 2024-01-27 15:28 -0500
            Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2024-01-28 09:54 +1300
              Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2024-01-27 23:01 +0000
            Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2024-01-27 23:00 +0000
            Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2024-01-27 19:59 -0500
              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
                Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Sten deJoode <StendeJood@nospam.net> - 2024-01-28 21:40 -0500
                Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2024-01-30 08:59 -0500
                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
      Re: Apple banned some of its customers' Macs for using Beeper Gabriel Coan <coan.gabriel@icloud.com> - 2024-01-28 12:16 -0500
        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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