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Apple's Messages Offers Free Texting With a Side of iPhone Lock-In
itwbennett writes "Who doesn't love free text messages? People who try to transition from an iPhone to any other phone, that's who. Apple's Messages app actively moves conversations away from paid text messages to free Messages. Very convenient until you want to leave your iPhone and switch back to plain old text messages because suddenly you'll be unable to receive text messages from your iPhone-toting friends. There's an obscure workaround, and Samsung, which has a vested interest in the matter, has a lengthy guide to removing your iPhone as a registered receiver of Messages . But the experience is just annoying enough that it might be the kind of thing that would keep someone from making a switch — and that's when it starts to feel like deliberate lock-in, and not so much like something Apple overlooked."
So, you're too fucking stupid to turn iMessages off? Must be evil apple trying to lock you in.
Fucking tool.
yes. he should call all the possible people and future contacts who may have iphones to go and turn something off. you're head of the class, but you got there on the short bus smarty pants. you go and do that, since from your asshole attitude you probably only have 2 friends - your right hand and your mom.
as far as your bullshit comment on bullshit, the only thing that's total bullshit is what is in your braincase, which is filled with shit, not allowing you to think, but allowing you to spew arrogant asshole bullshit.
the case presented here, where a user has an iphone which registers its number with imessage, is replaced with a non-iphone. the number then remains registered with imessage until you manually remove it from there. when other people's iphones connect to imessage, it tells them you're an iphone user, even though you no longer are. at that point, the message is not retried by sms, and indeed goes into a black hole. such as in the exact use case of the guy you are replying to - the use case in the article.
the fact that it works on your iphone is great, however your specific case is not what everyone here is talking about. fortunately we all have the comprehension skills to understand the use case in the summary - you don't. who gives a fuck it works for you in a different scenario? that's not what we're all talking about. now, why don't you go back to texting your mom from your iphone - just wipe the lotion off your second friend first. idiot. seriously - if you don't understand something, tone it down. a reply that is arrogant and rude is especially funny. let me guess - you act the bully on the internet but are actually quite awkward and anti-social in real life? you are an asshole to people proactively - tell them to fuck off first before they reject you? kill yourself. kill yourself now. no one likes you, no one wants you, you are a stupid loser who should stop trying to get through the next day w/o meeting new people. we don't want you, we don't like you. kill yourself. do it now - stop suffering. all the happy people meeting smiling and fucking and enjoying life - we all hate you, because you are a loser. go away.