The only thing you should take for granite is something of equal or greater value.

So the FBI asks Apple to unlock a phone, then Apple says no and then compares it to cancer and other terrible things to sway people’s emotions.

The FBI retaliates to sway the public opinion back in their favor saying that Apple are being dicks, and Apple says the FBI are taking cheap shots?

Here in America, we were on the winning side of World War II. So we deserve to have a beverage whenever we want, unlike you.

While I agree with eat and drink at the wheel - NOBODY should do that. I cant help but want to tell you to fuck off with the condescending tone your post has.

TL;DR:

Here we go. “My culture is different from your culture. My culture does everything right and your culture does everything wrong. My culture is better than your culture.”

Unless you can FIRST get it to be approved as the de-facto standard replacement (backwards compatible with SMS) with all major platforms iOS, Android, etc then don’t bother. I have enough issues between iOS and Android as it is. Half the time messages from iOS users come in 3, 4, 7 times in a row, the other half of…

“Google wants to replace SMS with a better messaging platform...” that they will promptly abandon within a year or two.

Yes, but your original post implies a company is “forcing” you to buy a $650-$950 phone, because the battery isn’t replaceable.

Non-replacable doesn’t mean non-servicable. Replacing the battery can still be done, it just takes longer than 30 seconds.

Apple’s probably the biggest patent troll

Well clearly three factions have already formed. You have:

Well to be fair PC is lacking a Command key.

I use all 10 (well 9 since I rarely use my left thumb) and I can type over 100 wpm easily.