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Most people overestimate the prevalence of malice, und underestimate the prevalence of incompetence

He's being a salesman, he wants to convince enterprises they need Box AI

"Everyone" as in financial companies and governments

Nothing aspires to be Apple. They're all about design. I can't see them getting invested in a nerdy philosophical cause like this

It's called pooled hiring, and it makes sense when a company is hiring lots of people for lots of teams. Most large companies do this when hiring rates are high. You end up with better employee-team match when you interview a candidate first and then match them based on their skills/interest, rather than contacting them for a specific role they may or may not be interested in.

Has nothing to do with whether hiring is for headcount or other reasons

My library has one, but it's only open for 1 hour a week, which is a shame because most 3d prints take longer than that

Tiktok is actively suppressing the stories.

Is there any evidence of this? FWIW, I saw plenty of tiktoks talking about the China hack

San Francisco seems to be missing from the cities list

I'm most impressed by the domain name. How much does time.fyi cost you?

If they kept coming back, that means you never really exterminated the population, just got their numbers low. You need to make the population go extinct

It's not like apple only allows iphone to iphone texting.

Because of the limitations of SMS (not supporting high res pictures, no groupchats over 10 people, etc) it effectively is only for iphones. People with Android phones in the US in iPhone-circles simply cannot be socially integrated and have full social lives

The /r/beeper subreddit is full of people coming in to complain about beeper. Even if people don't think what beeper is trying to do is worthwhile, I don't understand what makes people emotionally invested to the point where they are would devote a ton of energy to complaining about perceived threats. It's like they see any threats to Apple as a personal attack on them

They are a for-profit company, but they want to make their profit by filling a demand people are willing to pay for

Among non-technical lay people, the perception is Android can't interoperate with iPhones due to inferior technology. (For example, people call low resolution photos android photos. They don't realize photos sent over sms were downscaled by the protocol, they assume it was taken in that low resolution format to begin with)

Suddenly being able to text androids without issue made it clear to everyone it's a policy-limitation, not a technological limitation

Can you sue someone for violating TOS? It's not illegal, and Apple doesn't have any damages.

Terms of Service are just... the terms you need to follow in exchange for service. If you violate the terms, you get cut off from service... which they already did

Interestingly, in the groupchat I'm in (N=67, mostly software engineers in the Bay Area), I've noticed a high correlation between people taking Pro-Beeper and Pro-Palestine stances, and those taking Pro-Apple and Pro-Israel stances

iMessage isn't dominant because it's "better". It's dominant because it's the default. Doesn't matter how good a chat app is, iMessage users aren't going to switch

Considering beeper is coming after Google's closed chat networks too, I doubt it.

What grounds can they sue them on?

Beeper's ultimate goal is to promote the Matrix protocol, and bridge proprietary networks to the open protocol

Do you get 2FA codes when logging in from am actual Apple device? Because it might be an issue with how your apple account is set up to do 2FA that has nothing to do with beeper

Sue them on what grounds?

SMS doesn't support emoji reactions, read receipts, typing indicators, high quality pictures/video, or groupchats over 10 people. These are deal-breaker for anyone that texts regularly

it uses the exact same authorization mechanism as a real iOS device and grants the user access to no more than a real device would.

And a hacker that social engineers someone's bank password is entering just like the account owner would. "Hacking" doesn't have to involve exploiting a technical vulnerability. It's just unauthorized system access, regardless of methodology

but the solution is to get everyone to use a different chat app

And how do you do that?

I had to purchase an iPhone solely to use iMessage. Believe me, I would have loved to use any other internet-based chat app. But I just can't move my entire social circle to a different app. The network effects and friction are too high.

The only thing end users really have control over is their own client. I don't know if they'll succeed in the long run, but I'm really rooting for beeper

None of the existing chat apps have established themselves as viable alternatives

Meta has trashed their privacy image so FB Messenger/WhatsApp non-starters for lots of Americans. Signal, telegram don't have enough PR, 90% of Americans have never heard of them. Kik was popular but died due to their financial trouble. Discord/Groupme have found success by marketing themselves towards particular niches, but people don't really think of them as general-purpose messaging apps

Many Americans have Facebook/WhatsApp accounts they haven't used in years. I'd be skeptical they surpass iMessage in terms of volume of messages

I did as well. Because there are group chats I need to be in that I can only access if I have iMessage

I can't convince dozens of people in the groups to go sign up for signal just to accommodate me