Hey Dan!
This is something I’ve always wanted to do - but I have zero experience
Might be a silly questions, but what’s a good way to get started? Do you have any advice for someone interested in writing about tech?
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And this was the case with everyone I interacted with - we all just used text really. Some of us used chat apps on the computer, and I knew one other person with a BlackBerry who I could BBM, but on mobile it was SMS/MMS.
Compare that with Europe where data plans were more accessible and things like BBM, WhatsApp could proliferate.
I still think text messaging is king in the US - all Apple did is put enhanced features into the normal texting app. No one changed behaviors.
- When talking about iMessage’s dominance in the US, the piece of insight I always hear missed is the prevalence of data plans in the EU vs US.
Data plans were very expensive and you generally only had one if you had a smartphone, for the rest of us, we were all using SMS to communicate. Even if you did have a smartphone and data plan, they could still be super limited. My first smartphone in 2011 (Palm Pixi Plus) had a data cap of 150 MB per month - no way was I using a third party chat app.
Data plans were very expensive and you generally only had one if you had a smartphone, for the rest of us, we were all using SMS to communicate. Even if you did have a smartphone and data plan, they could still be super limited. My first smartphone in 2011 (Palm Pixi Plus) had a data cap of 150 MB per month - no way was I using a third party chat app.
Listening to the Vergecast with @davidpierce and Eric Migicovsky from Pebble. Unorganized thoughts…
- Dude I miss the Pebble. I’m starting to become a watch boy and I think I’m going to pull it out of storage and add it to the rotation.
- I was in college from 2013 to 2017 and GroupMe was THE group messaging app. It is a complete piece of shit but had a stranglehold on my college campus - I’m still stuck in some old GroupMes from that time.
Matthew CassinelliMe running shortcuts: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me editing shortcuts: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
@dcseifert do you know the guilt i felt spending $300 on a Dream Machine and then immediately having to go back and buy an additional access point after the UDM didn’t make it through our plaster walls.
@dcseifert 1000% well-off people who can’t be bothered to deal with networking. Networking can be such an unfun pain in the ass
I got the fancy Unifi set up because I’m a total nerd - but like most of friends and family don’t have the know how to research all this.
It’s the same reason I get oil changes at the dealer instead of trying to do it myself. Or why people just buy soundbars instead of proper home theater speakers.
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That time a company clumsily stole IP from Apple, and the story of Apple's sweet, clever revenge.
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