It's still a bidding system in some sense in Azure.
You set your max price, up to the on-demand price, and then you'll get your VM... or not. If you do get the VM, you still don't pay the full price in most circumstances unless demand is very high.
> 1. No threading is supported. If you reply, it duplicates the message being replied to.
Threading (using "Reply") is not supported in mixed iMessage/SMS/MMS text chains. (I'm using iOS 16, so this may have been (unwisely) supported in earlier Message versions.)
> 2. “Tapbacks” (reactions) duplicate the message being reacted to with “so-and-so likes message … message”
The other things you list are limitations and side-effects of the standards used. They're valid, but I consider the experience "fine" without them. If the groups I text with cared about these we would probably use WhatsApp since everyone has that. Signal would be my preference, but it's hard to change people's habits.
Didn’t know about Tapback support on Android. Wish iOS had that support for non-iMessage chats!
I think the point I want to stress is that when everyone uses iMessage, it’s as easy as texting, but just about as good as WhatsApp/etc. from a feature/user experience point of view.
Agree that we can be friends. Hopefully my comment wasn’t seen as adversarial. I just get annoyed when I see the green text bubbles, because people try to use iMessage features and it’s just bad. Non-techies don’t realize it’s different because it’s the same app, but then wonder why photos aren’t high resolution, or things don’t work as expected.
I recently started using NextDNS, and it's great, but was thinking about exactly this use case as I went to my allow-list yet again to add a domain so I could use some app/site, I forget which.
NextDNS is great, but occasionally breaks things depending on the blocklists enabled, so I was toying with the idea of building a utility that would show the last n blocked domains with an easy option to click-to-add a specific domain to the allow-list.
“Doing things with people you are romantically interested in” is what dating means, whether you use the term actively or not. More context can be found here: