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    From Thomas E.@21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 24 08:15:29 2022
    In Atlanta to see family we were 3 miles away from the Alpharetta Apple store. I persuaded her to go take a look at iPhone and we left with a new 126 gb 14.

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  • From John@21:1/5 to Thomas E. on Sat Dec 24 17:36:52 2022
    On 12/24/2022 8:15 AM, Thomas E. wrote:
    In Atlanta to see family we were 3 miles away from the Alpharetta Apple store. I persuaded her to go take a look at iPhone and we left with a new 126 gb 14.



    Thank God you bought a real phone rather than an Android piece of junk.

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  • From Thomas E.@21:1/5 to John on Tue Dec 27 06:39:15 2022
    On Saturday, December 24, 2022 at 8:36:59 PM UTC-5, John wrote:
    On 12/24/2022 8:15 AM, Thomas E. wrote:
    In Atlanta to see family we were 3 miles away from the Alpharetta Apple store. I persuaded her to go take a look at iPhone and we left with a new 126 gb 14.
    Thank God you bought a real phone rather than an Android piece of junk.

    Her 4 year old Moto phone was working fine. It is not a piece of junk. A bit slow, and the battery life has declined, but otherwise works great. Same for her Samsung Android tablet that I replaced with my iPad 7.

    My prior iPhone and iPad were slowing down and had reduced battery life too before I recently traded up to the 14 Pro and iPad 9.

    Some cheap Android phones are not very good at all. I'll give you that.

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  • From Alan@21:1/5 to Thomas E. on Tue Dec 27 13:12:15 2022
    On 2022-12-27 06:39, Thomas E. wrote:
    On Saturday, December 24, 2022 at 8:36:59 PM UTC-5, John wrote:
    On 12/24/2022 8:15 AM, Thomas E. wrote:
    In Atlanta to see family we were 3 miles away from the Alpharetta
    Apple store. I persuaded her to go take a look at iPhone and we
    left with a new 126 gb 14.
    Thank God you bought a real phone rather than an Android piece of
    junk.

    Her 4 year old Moto phone was working fine. It is not a piece of
    junk. A bit slow, and the battery life has declined, but otherwise
    works great. Same for her Samsung Android tablet that I replaced with
    my iPad 7.

    My prior iPhone and iPad were slowing down and had reduced battery
    life too before I recently traded up to the 14 Pro and iPad 9.

    Some cheap Android phones are not very good at all. I'll give you
    that.

    What would you care to bet she'll never want to go back to Android?

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Thomas E.@21:1/5 to Alan on Tue Dec 27 14:22:36 2022
    On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 4:12:21 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:
    On 2022-12-27 06:39, Thomas E. wrote:
    On Saturday, December 24, 2022 at 8:36:59 PM UTC-5, John wrote:
    On 12/24/2022 8:15 AM, Thomas E. wrote:
    In Atlanta to see family we were 3 miles away from the Alpharetta
    Apple store. I persuaded her to go take a look at iPhone and we
    left with a new 126 gb 14.
    Thank God you bought a real phone rather than an Android piece of
    junk.

    Her 4 year old Moto phone was working fine. It is not a piece of
    junk. A bit slow, and the battery life has declined, but otherwise
    works great. Same for her Samsung Android tablet that I replaced with
    my iPad 7.

    My prior iPhone and iPad were slowing down and had reduced battery
    life too before I recently traded up to the 14 Pro and iPad 9.

    Some cheap Android phones are not very good at all. I'll give you
    that.
    What would you care to bet she'll never want to go back to Android?

    At the moment she is still struggling with differences a bit. It's "This worked on my old.....". There are real differences, and the fact that the apps are different enough that our 3rd party password manager is having issues with filling app credentials.
    Not so much websites, but apps. We are working through it though. I'm betting in a month or two we will have the kinks ironed out.

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  • From Alan@21:1/5 to Thomas E. on Tue Dec 27 15:01:09 2022
    On 2022-12-27 14:22, Thomas E. wrote:
    On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 4:12:21 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:
    On 2022-12-27 06:39, Thomas E. wrote:
    On Saturday, December 24, 2022 at 8:36:59 PM UTC-5, John wrote:
    On 12/24/2022 8:15 AM, Thomas E. wrote:
    In Atlanta to see family we were 3 miles away from the
    Alpharetta Apple store. I persuaded her to go take a look at
    iPhone and we left with a new 126 gb 14.
    Thank God you bought a real phone rather than an Android piece
    of junk.

    Her 4 year old Moto phone was working fine. It is not a piece of
    junk. A bit slow, and the battery life has declined, but
    otherwise works great. Same for her Samsung Android tablet that I
    replaced with my iPad 7.

    My prior iPhone and iPad were slowing down and had reduced
    battery life too before I recently traded up to the 14 Pro and
    iPad 9.

    Some cheap Android phones are not very good at all. I'll give
    you that.
    What would you care to bet she'll never want to go back to
    Android?

    At the moment she is still struggling with differences a bit. It's
    "This worked on my old.....". There are real differences, and the
    fact that the apps are different enough that our 3rd party password
    manager is having issues with filling app credentials. Not so much
    websites, but apps. We are working through it though. I'm betting in
    a month or two we will have the kinks ironed out.

    Apple's Keychain is password management done right, but it will only
    really work for she uses nothing but Apple devices.

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  • From Thomas E.@21:1/5 to Alan on Thu Dec 29 05:52:09 2022
    On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 6:01:12 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:
    On 2022-12-27 14:22, Thomas E. wrote:
    On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 4:12:21 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:
    On 2022-12-27 06:39, Thomas E. wrote:
    On Saturday, December 24, 2022 at 8:36:59 PM UTC-5, John wrote:
    On 12/24/2022 8:15 AM, Thomas E. wrote:
    In Atlanta to see family we were 3 miles away from the
    Alpharetta Apple store. I persuaded her to go take a look at
    iPhone and we left with a new 126 gb 14.
    Thank God you bought a real phone rather than an Android piece
    of junk.

    Her 4 year old Moto phone was working fine. It is not a piece of
    junk. A bit slow, and the battery life has declined, but
    otherwise works great. Same for her Samsung Android tablet that I
    replaced with my iPad 7.

    My prior iPhone and iPad were slowing down and had reduced
    battery life too before I recently traded up to the 14 Pro and
    iPad 9.

    Some cheap Android phones are not very good at all. I'll give
    you that.
    What would you care to bet she'll never want to go back to
    Android?

    At the moment she is still struggling with differences a bit. It's
    "This worked on my old.....". There are real differences, and the
    fact that the apps are different enough that our 3rd party password manager is having issues with filling app credentials. Not so much websites, but apps. We are working through it though. I'm betting in
    a month or two we will have the kinks ironed out.
    Apple's Keychain is password management done right, but it will only
    really work for she uses nothing but Apple devices.

    Right, but Keychain is, unfortunately, inside the Apple Walled Garden. We use a 3rd party utility (not LastPass) that has worked well for years with Apple, Android and Windows devices. Yesterday I discovered that on the new phone I neglected to enable
    that utility in the phone's settings. Oops.

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