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Re: I'm done with Twitter

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Cydrome Leader <presence@mungepanix.com> wrote:

> It looked like this twiter shit was founded in 2006. I'm a late phone 
> adopter and I know for a fact even an old phone from then could do group 
> texting with no problem and that unlimited (or just a huge number of them) 
> wasn't expensive or hard to get. If twiter was from 1996, some of this 
> might make sense. Even my 1997 phone could receive text messages. You 
> could not reply, and could not see where they came from, but they did show 
> up, many years after I got the phone.

No, I have to kind of disagree with the state of SMS in 2006.

I'm pretty sure if you can track down some advertising for phone plans, text
messaging was an option service and or had restrictions like 50 per month or
200 if included in a plan. Costs varied between incoming and outgoing too.

Remember the iPhone only came out in 2007 which made texting easier with the
on screen keyboard rather than the abc-1 keyboard bit (and also except for
the Blackberry).

I also remember as late as 2009 or 2010, the europeans were somewhat
surprised when travelling here that unlimited sms wasn't included with many
plans. Over there, nearly any monthly plan was unlimited text as part of it
and were snickering about how the americans had to pay 10 cents or so each
if they used up the 300 (at the time) package.

> Not trying to call you a liar, but like how a TIF district works, it just 
> never makes sense.

I still could be totally wrong but it was always in the back of my mind that
twitters start centered around SMS. It was a cross between the phone service
and a web site. You and your buddies could sit all day on the site sending
text messages to each other free of charge. If you wanted to get their
attention, by adding that @username would get it out SMS if they set it up
that way.

But I still could be totally wrong, for all I know they could of started out
as a porn site where the gals were sending out slutty messages via SMS and
at some point decided to drop the porn angle.


> I was waiting for some magic updae to allow FM radio on the galaxy s5, but 
> it never seeme to happen. Can't say that I really miss the radio, unless 
> it's the dusties AM station.

I still don't think enabling them is just a software fix. 

To me, unless they designed the phone to use that feature at some future
date, I really don't think it's likely it would work if they did patch the
firmware.

The ones that do have it (FM radio), the headphones act as the antenna and
can only be used with the headphones. Unplug the headphones to use the
internal speaker, you'll just get hiss.

They way they are trying to shrink the phones, make them thinner while
extending battery life and adding in other things, that one foil trace
between the chip and jack might not be there at all. It seems to me it would
be the first one to go or never put there in the first place unless they
were planning on it later on.

I'm not even sure that article is correct, when I read about that Broadcom
or Qualcomm chip having the fm radio in, I thought they said it was the chip
for the wifi/bluetooth stuff, not the LTE/GPS one. The only product in the
Apple lineup with the FM radio enabled is an iPod, which doesn't have any
cellular in it at all.

So if they got that wrong, the bit about it just being a firmware update to
enable it isn't right either, unless there is a mechanical modification
made.

Besides I never read or heard about an FM radio mod from the guys that do
the jailbreaks for the iPhones (or rooting on the andriod stuff). Usually
those guys examine all the hidden shit in there so there are apps that do
things people didn't think were possible.

-bruce
bje@ripco.com

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  Re: I'm done with Twitter smr <me@shawnritchie.com> - 2016-07-04 19:16 -0500
    Re: I'm done with Twitter Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-07-05 15:17 +0000
    Re: I'm done with Twitter Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-07-05 11:17 -0700
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          Re: I'm done with Twitter Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> - 2016-07-06 15:46 +0000
            Re: I'm done with Twitter Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-07-06 09:35 -0700
        Re: I'm done with Twitter Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-07-06 09:38 -0700
          Re: I'm done with Twitter smr <me@shawnritchie.com> - 2016-07-06 19:23 -0500
            Re: I'm done with Twitter Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-07-06 22:11 -0700
              Re: I'm done with Twitter Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> - 2016-07-07 15:28 +0000
                Re: I'm done with Twitter Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-07-07 12:05 -0700
                Re: I'm done with Twitter Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-07-08 15:38 +0000
                Re: I'm done with Twitter barbie gee <booger@nosespam.com> - 2016-07-08 20:36 -0500
                Re: I'm done with Twitter Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> - 2016-07-09 02:19 +0000
                Re: I'm done with Twitter Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2016-07-09 11:35 +0000
                Re: I'm done with Twitter Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-07-09 18:50 -0700
                Re: I'm done with Twitter Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-07-10 04:36 +0000
                Re: I'm done with Twitter Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2016-07-10 11:20 +0000
                Re: I'm done with Twitter core <core@pt40.net> - 2016-07-10 11:11 -0500
                Re: I'm done with Twitter Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> - 2016-07-11 00:55 +0000
                Re: I'm done with Twitter Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-07-11 19:05 +0000
                Re: I'm done with Twitter Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> - 2016-07-12 14:31 +0000

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