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From: "badgolferman" <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: did this group die?
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 19:12:10 -0000 (UTC)
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Andrews wrote:

>badgolferman wrote on Wed, 30 Oct 2024 17:02:32 -0000 (UTC) :
>
>>What is kill filing, shouting down, berating, and calling someone a
>>troll anything other than forms of canceling a person?  Having
>>disagreement using normal conversations without hurling aspersions
>>is how emotionally mature people communicate.
>
>I've been on Usenet since the days when you frequented
>alt.home.repair, where the Apple newsgroups have always been a
>divisive Usenet oddity.
>
>For the zealots, it was always "us versus them" and "we're better'n
>you".
>
>In the initial heady days of Steve Jobs when Apple was actually ahead
>of the mobile phone competition, the zealots would joyfully scream
>out how many apps were in the app store, for example, versus the
>Android selection.
>
>But no more...
>
>In those initial days, the zealots would gleefully shout out how much
>better their iPhone cameras were than the Android cameras. But no
>more.
>
>Long ago, these zealots would happily taunt the Android users on
>security, zero-day bugs, and most of all, their vaunted "safety" in
>iPhone security.
>
>But no more...
>
>The zealots would excitedly scream about their many updates by
>contemptuously being scornful of the classic Android fragmentation.
>
>But no more...
>
>Notice the trend - which goes a long way toward explaining why the
>Apple newsgroups have turned moribund while Windows & Android
>newsgroups prosper.
>
>There's nothing for these zealots to tout (other than new emoji &
>colors).
>
>Apple is moribund...
>There's nothing for these zealots to say to feel good about the
>iPhone.
>
>And that, badgolferman, is the only reason the zealots post to this
>group.
>
>What do you think about that assessment... it's been decades in the
>making?


You may be right, but I suspect the counter argument would be that
Google/Android has finally caught up to Apple/iOS and there are no more
innovations for either to set themselves apart.  I don't know whether
that's true or not, but that's something I've heard here numerous times.

-- 
"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors and also to love our enemies;
probably because generally they are the same people." ~ G. K. Chesterton