Comment on U.S. Sues Apple, Accusing It of Maintaining an iPhone Monopoly
squeakycat@lemmy.ml 6 months agoThe iphone/non-iphone situation is utterly insane to me. I am constantly being punished for not having an iphone, be it texting or airdrop. These things should be standardized and interoperable, not owned commodities by companies. Grrr.
Darkrai@kbin.social 6 months ago
Stop talking to the type of people that care about what phone you have.
frog@beehaw.org 6 months ago
So I’m actually going to agree with this, with a caveat, having learned from personal experience - because sometimes we do have to keep talking to these people for work/education/family purposes. When they start arguing about their choice of phone being better, ignore them. But do continue to respond to them about things you need to talk to them about. Or, in short, grey rock the hell out of them.
Method successfully deployed against a guy at university who picked fights about everything, including what phones people had.
renard_roux@beehaw.org 6 months ago
Ah yes, the John Waters strategy! ❤️
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charles@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Some of us don’t really have that luxury. For example, I don’t choose who I need to communicate with for work purposes.
squeakycat@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
It’s not that they necessarily care, it’s that it’s the assumed default. So then I have to respond with “I can’t do that, can you upload it here?” it makes me the odd one out making people jump through hoops.