Yeah, it’s all just creepy, anxiety inducing design to force interaction. Ask most people and they feel pressured to respond to texts–and that was even before rcs.

Apple finally enabled rcs in the last week, at least for Verizon, all kinds of things and kinks are expected.

Or it could also be some people don’t want to send read receipts, I’ve always thought they And “typing” indicators were creepy AF

“Google said that when the feature does roll out, it’ll be entirely optional for adults but opt-out for users who are under the age of 18.”

“For now. We forgot to add that. For now. Empower fascists or don’t be evil, whichever gets me paid.”

“upgrading”

For my child to participate in elementary school, and not be left out of comouter-based learning, I have to approve of her using a chromebook which is doing exactly what I’m sure we can all imagine with future marketable data sources: building profiles.

“…and when they were 7 they liked…” “Try the color red, they used to prefer than, might be a good nostalgic pitch…”

Oh UI improvement from Google? Yeah they’ll get right on that.

Healthcare, education, transportation…it’s like the opposite of the Life of Brian scene about the Romans, talking about what they brought areas they took control of.

Envious!

Does it have a “day off” feature? Nothing speaks to how horrific US culture is fed by these giant companies that neither apple nor Google has the common sense “I’m off tomorrow, don’t do my regular schedule alarm”. Instead you have to disable and then set a reminder to turn your alarms back on, which stresses me out about forgetting.

And remember for VOWiFi, some carriers require you to also enable it on their own website in your account–of course to eat up your data if you don’t jump through the hoop.

Are orgs blocking mobile? Habent heard of that, not really sure how that works, is there really an admin setting that doesn’t allow mobile app usage?

Guess I’d take my laptop and a hotspot…