Apple won’t let you use an Apple TV unless you have another Apple device

Re:Apple won’t let you use an Apple TV unless you have anoth... by fnordpiglet on Monday January 16, 2023 @06:14PM (#34406827)

I think for in the range of 98% of smartphone users the phone is the least useful feature. In truth they’re often really crap phones and my old flip phone had better all around phone quality and utility. But at this point I feel annoyed when I have to speak to a person. If I were meant to speak to people I wouldn’t have been born an engineer.

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Re:Apple won’t let you use an Apple TV unless you have anoth... by Marsymars on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @02:55AM (#34410136)

> I think for in the range of 98% of smartphone users the phone is the least useful feature.

Part of the reason this number's so high is that if a phone feature is really important to you, you're liable to get a standalone VoIP line and a headset to go with whatever handset you have rather than using a smartphone.

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Re:Apple won’t let you use an Apple TV unless you have anoth... by fnordpiglet on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @06:19PM (#34420933)

Yeah certainly the fact they’re universally bad phones makes them less useful as a phone, and phone phones are better at being phones.

But I would also hold that phones generally suck, but that’s opinion.

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Re:Apple won’t let you use an Apple TV unless you have anoth... by Marsymars on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @07:52PM (#34421854)

> But I would also hold that phones generally suck, but that’s opinion.

Technically compared to e.g. internet-native voice communication, or you just think that remote voice communication is bad?

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Re:Apple won’t let you use an Apple TV unless you have anoth... by fnordpiglet on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @08:43PM (#34422358)

Voice is for jocks.

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