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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	2019-01-12 14:19 +1100
Message-ID	<g9t4msFsj0uU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References	(7 earlier) <100120191618499680%timstreater@greenbee.net> <2L-dnbJT1IJkIqrBnZ2dnUU7-ROdnZ2d@giganews.com> <100120192227097645%timstreater@greenbee.net> <g9q2msF832jU1@mid.individual.net> <110120191123422909%timstreater@greenbee.net>

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"Tim Streater" <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote in message 
news:110120191123422909%timstreater@greenbee.net...
> In article <g9q2msF832jU1@mid.individual.net>, dkol <dkol@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>"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
>
> For that I'll just take the old 6Mpx Sony I bought in 2003 or whenever,
> for the very few occasions when I wanted to do that.

The difference is that the smartphone is always close
and always with you when out of the house so you
don’t need to plan that, just do it when you need to.

>>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.
>
> Last time anyone ran into me was in 1985. I'd say a dashcam at £30
> would be a much better buy.

Doesn’t work in plenty of situations like the last time
that happened to me, stupid cow charged out of the
parking place in one of those big supermarket car
parks without even looking, as I was backing out
of mine, and proceeded to demolish her plastic
front bumper on my tow bar. She had a massive
great gouge down the side of her car as well.
Handy to have a photo of that if she had been
stupid enough to try to claim that the accident
wasn’t her fault.

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