Re: Google is preparing to replace RCS with MLS

On 7/29/24 9:48 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2024-07-29 21:26, The Real Bev wrote:

On 7/29/24 1:12 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2024-07-28 19:34, The Real Bev wrote:

On 7/27/24 10:24 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2024-07-27 20:33, The Real Bev wrote:

On 7/27/24 6:51 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2024-07-27 18:46, The Real Bev wrote:

On 7/27/24 12:51 PM, Alan wrote:

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Who cares how many times a day I unlock my phone...
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...if it doesn't inconvenience me at all to do so?

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If I only needed to unlock it when I turned it on (in the morning about half the time) I'd be willing to do that.  NOT if I have to do it every time the screen goes blank, which I have it set to do after 2 minutes.

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If it unlocks before you can even do anything?

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It's annoying enough to have to push the button, but I don't see any way around that.

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I'm sorry, but I want to understand:
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Pushing a button...
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...is "annoying"?

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My Lenovo tablet, otherwise in fine shape, is useless because the little plastic actuaor that actually pushes the switch no longer reaches the switch.  I can only assume wear.  I don't want to replace my phone because of something stupid like that.  I can take the tablet apart, but the phone needs to be glued.  No.
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My phone unlocks with my thumbprint by the time I can see the screen.

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After my experience with the thumb-reader at the gym I'm not about to trust the phone's.  I suddenly want to take a picture and have to fumble with the switch AND the thumb-reader?  No.

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You don't have to "fumble" with anything to take a picture, so...

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Rotate phone.
Half-push the power button with thumb because of the oddness of the case..
[tap/touch finger-sensor]
Re-position the camera.
Tap the circle.
Butterfly gone.
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Small-muscle clumsiness is the reason that some of us would never be good musicians.  Also causes problems with object manipulation.

 

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So your argument is that unlocking a phone with a home button is bad...

 What is a home button?  Do you mean power button?

 Nope. I mean a home button.
 It's on the bottom of some iPhones.

It's a virtual button, not a real one, and useless unless the power button has turned the screen back on.

...because yours happens to be broken?

 Not broken;  I don't like subjecting things to unnecessary wear and I'm clumsy.  I'd also like the tiny fonts used by so many apps to be larger -- WTF are they saving that whitespace for?
 We all need more config options, not fewer.

 You're deflecting now.

Nope, just drifting. The subject of [un]locking the phone seems to have been sufficiently covered.
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Cheers, Bev
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