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Re: The iPhone has won over casual users.

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by: Wally J - Fri, 1 Sep 2023 04:24 UTC

*Hemidactylus* <ecphoric@allspamis.invalid> wrote

> [snipped and ignored]

*iOS ===> designed for a technically incompetent consumer base*

Otherwise, Apple wouldn't have promoted the "it just works" campaign.

Meanwhile, iOS does NOT work for thousands (upon thousands!) of very useful
functional things that _every_ other consumer OS easily does.

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From: nuh-uh@nope.com (Alan)
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by: Alan - Fri, 1 Sep 2023 04:39 UTC

On 2023-08-31 21:24, Wally J wrote:
> *Hemidactylus* <ecphoric@allspamis.invalid> wrote
>
>> [snipped and ignored]
>
> *iOS ===> designed for a technically incompetent consumer base*
>
> Otherwise, Apple wouldn't have promoted the "it just works" campaign.
>
> Meanwhile, iOS does NOT work for thousands (upon thousands!) of very useful
> functional things that _every_ other consumer OS easily does.

But which so few consumers care about that they buy iPhones anyway!

:-)

Subject	Author
The iPhone has won over casual users.	Wally J
The iPhone has won over casual users.	Alan