I’m just saying Apple doesn’t make anything close to a cheap stripped down $200 model.

I made the comparison based on feature set. For that you need an android flagship phone. Android DOES make cheap phones…but therexs no 1:1 comparison for Apple.

Oh, I was comparing flagships, because iphone doesn’t have a non-flagship to compare to.

George Carlin does a great bit on this. To the point that your second sentence was almost a direct quote. I thought you were about to make references.

The only answer is money at that point. I don’t know how much phones are these days, but aren’t iPhones like $1400, but Android is like $900?

I may be wrong though. Last time I bought a phone was 2018, and it was $600. Still using it.

“What if I WANT my kids watching porn???”

Really bold stratagy you got there.

Holy shit. I’m bad at telling if AI is obvious sometimes. Is this real? It has swastikas (obviously) but it also has the american flag.

Is this 1930s? Or 2020s?

God. The fact I even have to ask is in itself a reflection of where we are as a society I guess.

They kill you!

Quick question, honest question…

At what point are the right happy?

Because the left will be happy when everybody has equal rights, and a high standard of living for everyone.

So, if that’s the lefts benchmark of a great society, what’s the right fighting towards? Money? Power? Control?

Then what?

When is America “great again”?

Because they’ve been pushing that slogan since the 80s. What’s the endgame here?

Because from where I’m sitting, there is no endgame. Nothing will ever make them happy. Nothing will ever be good enough. So what the fuck is the point?

Thats not how most people work.

Just because there’s a problem, doesn’t mean people seek a solution.

Thats why the majority of people in this country. They can each admit there is a problem. But they do nothing about it. Most don’t even try to diet or exercise.

And you want them to switch to an unfinished linux phone system. They aren’t going to do that over this change. The vast majority don’t use more than 5 apps. What do they care? For most, the cell phone is the replacement for a pc, snd all its used for is to text, and go on tiktok and instagram.

The changes you’re suggesting will work well for a certain crowd. That crowd is maybe 5% of the general population. The rest won’t even notice. And if they did, they’d just put up with it.

McDonalds in 2023 tried using AI in their drive thru. It lasted all of 3 weeks before McDonalds realized their business went down 70%. People were trying to order “BIG MAC” and the AI would add 33 apple pies.

Then they would get frustrated, and drive off without paying or getting anything.

I’ve seen other similar stories from other companies. Maybe not to the same degree. But the theme of the day is CEOs pay billions to integrate AI. Then find out that best case scenario is it works slightly worse than humans. Worst case is it crumbles their business. But at no point have I ever read a story where CEOs gain big advantages from investing in AI. But now they already paid the money, so dammit they’re going to use it!

And thats where we are today. Join us 5 years from now when Verizon replaces their entire crew with AI, and becomes just a keyosk in the mall with a touch screen.

Humans elected trump, and are just the worst. This isn’t even new information. The old phrase in the 1970s was “people suck”. Probably some old classic car that still has that bumper sticker somewhere.

Ok, horrifiying implications of the main story aside, why are you on facebook at all???

God damn! How badly do you want to tickle Elmo???

So there I was. Barbeque sauce on my titties.

Damn…I’m always low.

Was it one of the 8bitdo ones?

Windows XP was the greatest OS of all time.

All we’re doing now is wandering away from perfection.

I feel like I would have agreed with Google had they just argued “This is our private store. We did all the work to build it. We control the rules. If you want to make the Epic Store apk, you can. Sideloading is an absolute possibility. No hacking needed.”

I would agree with that.

Instead they argued by Epic charging money without giving google a slice, it compromises users safety and the innovation of the platform.

Fuck

Off.

What? You don’t like browsing the web, where everyone is shoving politics down your throat, and making violent hostile threats, and everybodys offended over baby names, and the web is like 3 websites big???

You don’t LOVE that?