Not all iMessage features can be mapped to RCS, so unless Apple brings iMessage to other platforms, non-Apple phones will always be associated with an inferior messaging experience.

Beeper already deregistered the numbers, but it takes 24 to 36 hours for Apple servers to forget the deregistered numbers.

The two things go hand in hand, though.

Degraded messaging gets branded with green bubbles. Green bubbles - i.e. non-Apple phones - get associated with degraded messaging. Non-Apple phones get pidgeon-holed as crappy phones for messaging. People get bullied into buying iPhones.

There’s not one single person in the world who should own a thousand million dollars, never mind hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars.

The pure existence of billionaires is unethical and immoral - doesn’t matter whether they’re being stupid and fascist in public, or quietly pulling strings and bending society to their will in the background.

Two ways a carrier can restrict this:

• If you buy the phone from your carrier, they can obviously restrict hardware functions that would otherwise be available on that phone.
• If they analyze your traffic, they can try to distinguish between mobile traffic and other traffic and attempt to block non-mobile traffic.

Every Pixel ever could create a hotspot. I’ve used the feature on every Pixel I ever had, and on every Nexus I owned before that.

I’ve definitely had this happen on a Pixel before. I was using it in pretty hot weather, and I think I was using it for a video chat.

The phone just shut down, and when it turned on again, it showed a message about overheating protection.