My brain immediately went to “OP is trying to trigger the trypophobics.”

infotainment systems should absolutely not be sharing core vehicle functionality

Particularly and especially when the infotainment system has an always-on cellular connection. Wired ran a story way back in 2015 that hackers had managed to gain control of (I wanna say) a Dodge (it was a Stellantis group car, can’t recall which one specifically) and were able to control not only convenience features of the car like lights, wipers, and stereo, but to disable the transmission completely. All it takes is one flaw or zero-day.

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Nah, that’s a paid upgrade. Default on the poverty-spec models is Kill All Children

Valid, but our credit card and mobile payment penetration is way higher than China’s was at the time WeChat launched, and bank relationships are notoriously sticky.

I don’t harbor any illusions of the '24 election going smoothly regardless. Trump’s camp is going to cry foul and claim the election was stolen regardless if he loses. It’ll be worse if he loses badly. We’re in for a very unpleasant time.

Employees don’t necessarily have to be Catholic, but the “guiding principles” of the hospital are rooted in Catholicism, including decisions like abortion. Catholicism will steer the types of care the hospital provides and its morality will affect care decisions, because as a “private entity” that’s a-ok.

I wouldn’t touch a faith-based healthcare provider with a 10’ pole.

Ah, good to see they’ve come to a final solution so quickly. I bet they didn’t even have to concentrate that hard.

It’ll never catch on in the US, though. We don’t need the functionality that an “everything app” like WeChat would provide. WeChat took off because it filled in a big gap for its users. The US already has a robust and diversified financial market and payments infrastructure that Zuck won’t have any chance of breaking into.

Just like stories, this is yet another feature a messaging app shouldn’t have.

Yeah, their “safest” list top 3 were all dead marques; Mercury, Pontiac, and Saturn. They definitely have some sampling issues.

I’ve done the same thing from the other end; got in to my car and realized my music didn’t start playing. Look around and, oops! No phone. My first thought was, “oh no big deal, I’ll just call-DAMMIT”

iPhones have the largest share of the US smartphone market. iMessage is the default messaging app on every iPhone, and cannot be changed. Ergo, iMessage is one of the top 5 largest messaging apps in the US. I believe it’s number 3 or 4 behind FB Messenger, WhatsApp, and FaceTime (also an Apple product).

Some places still don’t have a customer-facing terminal, like my bodega.

I bought mine from a place called Cucu Covers

Rabbinical scholars argue about the correct translation of Genesis to this day. So you saying they’re “literal days” is meaningless.

I have a sticker on my debit card that makes it look like a Blockbuster card. I get so many confused looks when I had it to cashiers.

Don’t have the article handy but I believe it was wired that reported on the decreasing contrast between the white text and green background across several iterations of iOS.

Edit: WSJ from 2018. I can’t find a way behind the paywall. And Medium. Also from '18

Then they’re assholes. Seems pretty simple, no?

For someone in their 40s, they’re probably stuck in the iPhone=rich/Android=poor dichotomy that Apple curated when the iPhone launched. That makes them vain and materialistic, and thus probably not people you want to be around if it’s that important to them.

Now, if you want to get into how Apple has been changing the contrast ratios on the text for blue and green bubbles to make the green messages harder to read, as well as intentionally making the green color unpleasant, there’s something there.

Sounds like your friends are assholes then. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ I have literally never as an adult had someone go “ew green bubbles.” Now, my teenage nephew? The iCult is STRONG with kids.