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A potentially good step in the right direction. This will need the will power to iterate and improve it.

Imagine getting rid of gas stations, or charging stations, because everywhere where your car might park is an opportunity to charge it. That would be amazing.

The fragility of the system right now, with exposed machinery, cables, etc can be improved. We have plenty of machines out in the open already (HVAC), and can remove cables with wireless charging. We just need to give the technology time to get there.

There is a difference between having to care, and naturally cares.

Almost zero people naturally care about encryption. It is not something that sparks the imagination and interest. It is not human nature.

But people learn that they have to care when the lack of encryption affects them personally or tangentially. This is why there is a disparity when comparing the population on The Verge against the normies.

This is selection bias, and a really poor way to make decisions or structure thinking. Which is exactly why Facebook is doing it, cause they suck at these kinds of insights.

I am interested in a phone that expands to a tablet.

So as we are both a data point of one, this makes it 50/50 of the population. /s

Good thing Samsung has exactly one phone in each style for us.

Lol. There are people who read The Verge from not in the US. And all technology news has impacts even in the US. Or do you want to bury your head in the sand and never learn anything?

What a self-centred, short-sighted comment.

Rollable requires more complicated mechanics. So it makes sense they will push foldable first, and rollable maybe in the future when they figure it out more.

An in-between alternative would be an outer foldable, with one screen that faces outwards. But that also requires the requisite glass technology to be fleshed out first. Which these existing foldables are helping push forward.

Yeah, but they do still mean SMS, and Apple cant control what people additionally associate with that. Regardless of RCS or not, there are still practical, real reasons to keep it a separate colour than iMessage.

For example, you mention features. Apple has full control over features they can provide over iMessage. They will not with RCS. There will always be a feature disparity between the two systems, hence a visual indicator for users. Theres basically no product/business reason for Apple to adopt RCS because it will effectively be exactly the same as what it is today with SMS overall.

All message bubbles were green on the iPhone before iMessage was introduced. Even this article seems to forget:

Not only are these messages shown in a color-clashing green bubble

Nobody complained about "color-clashing" when green was the default, only, colour. I’m not sure it’s Apple’s responsibility to regulate how people think about the colours of their message bubbles. It’s designed to signify SMS, not Android.

I try to avoid WhatsApp because of it’s connection to Meta, and it’s poorer user experience, when compared to Messenger (which is direct connection to Meta, but better user experience).

Just trade-offs all the way down.

You won’t see Apple launching a phone with an experimental new form factor and shaky long-term prospects. It would rather get on board when there’s a sure thing.

Yeah, the whole Apple bit is a bit off. Because this is exactly what they did do with the first iPhone, or iPod, or iPad, or Watch. It’s not experimental form factors that typically deters Apple, but experimental technology (i.e. folding screens).

Not to mention their heavily rumored (on the The Verge no less) foray into AR.

So sad

Gotta start somewhere. The fact that each iteration has polished the concept more is a good sign. Certainly a case for them to continue working on it, rather than to give up