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A comment on Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic. Parent comment

Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by swiley on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @07:05PM (#25144451)
How does this solve the problem where my family refuses to switch to a reasonable problem and I can't even talk to them without pirating an apple OS?
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Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by zepto on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @07:38PM (#25144779)
The problem seems to be with your family’s refusal, no?
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Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by aembleton on Thursday November 19, 2020 @06:18AM (#25148380)
Can't you phone her?
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Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by swiley on Thursday November 19, 2020 @07:27AM (#25148804)
Sure, but I'm left out of the group chat if I don't leave my OSX VM running.
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Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by zepto on Thursday November 19, 2020 @11:58AM (#25151485)
This is just as true for Facebook or Google or any messaging system. There is nothing special about Apple in this regard. It’s just a feature of current messaging technologies.

I stopped using Facebook earlier this year, and I am missing out on a bunch of social groups the contain people I know in real life.

What we need to do is build technology that doesn’t these downsides.

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