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Re: Tim Cook just literally said his customer is unfathomably stupid!

From	"dkol" <dkol@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.mobile.ipad, misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Tim Cook just literally said his customer is unfathomably stupid!
Date	2019-01-11 10:27 +1100
Message-ID	<g9q2msF832jU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References	(5 earlier) <q17ecl$4vq$1@dont-email.me> <100120191009424362%nospam@nospam.invalid> <100120191618499680%timstreater@greenbee.net> <2L-dnbJT1IJkIqrBnZ2dnUU7-ROdnZ2d@giganews.com> <100120192227097645%timstreater@greenbee.net>

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"Tim Streater" <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote in message 
news:100120192227097645%timstreater@greenbee.net...
> In article <2L-dnbJT1IJkIqrBnZ2dnUU7-ROdnZ2d@giganews.com>, Alan Browne
> <bitbucket@blackhole.com> wrote:
>
>>On 2019-01-10 11:18, Tim Streater wrote:
>>> In article <100120191009424362%nospam@nospam.invalid>, nospam
>>> <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In article <q17ecl$4vq$1@dont-email.me>, sms
>>>> <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> When my sister-in-law recently switched from her old Samsung Galaxy S3 
>>>>> to an iPhone 7, she asked me for help. When I could not figure out how 
>>>>> to do what she wanted on the iPhone she went to the Genius Bar at a 
>>>>> local Apple store. Unfortunately, the Genius Bar employee explained to 
>>>>> her what I had also learned by Googling it, the feature she used every 
>>>>> work day on her Galaxy S3 was not available on the iPhone.
>>>>
>>>> meanwhile, there were shitloads of things the iphone did that the
>>>> samsung did not, especially an old galaxy s3.
>>>>
>>>> no device does everything.
>>>
>>> And it's unclear that smart phones do very much of anything that's of
>>> use anyway, whoever makes them. I took email off mine since it's not
>>> secure; I don't use the camera. Apart from phoning, about the only
>>> thing that's of any actual use to me might be the Google Calendar app.
>>
>>SSL much?  ie: no less secure that a properly setup personal computer's 
>>e-mail.
>
> SSL is neither here nor there in this context, unless the mail client
> uses some smarts about not letting URLs and <img> downloads effectively
> phone home to the spammer.
>
>>
>>As to "much of anything that's of use"?  Very long list beginning with 
>>messages, web access, e-mail, navigation, contacts, and too much more to 
>>list...
>>
>>The camera is useful for countless things beyond snapshots.
>
> Ah, you mean for those bank robberies, plane crashes, tsunamis,
> earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions that occur on a daily basis where
> you are?

Nope, for taking a photo of the shelf price when shopping
around, taking a photo of the model plate when looking
for a part for it when it had died, taking a photo of something
like a sim which has printing on it too small and feint to read
so you can read the number from the photo, taking a photo
of the other car that has just run into you, and the driver etc.

> Life is quieter here.

But even you would do plenty that’s more convenient with a smartphone.

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