You know that “Shove it where the sun don’t shine, [redacted term of endearment that alleges a certain act with one's own mother]!” message you just sent to your buddy?
It actually went to your boss.
Charlie White reports for Mashable, “This is enough to make you paranoid: Google has acknowledged a bug in Android’s default text messaging app that sends texts to the wrong person.”
MacDailyNews Take: Freetardation squared.
White reports, “Equally disturbing is that the problem’s been going on since March, and Google hasn’t fixed it yet.”
MacDailyNews Take: Our Mother of Perpetual Beta bestows yet another beatific visitation upon her followers.
White reports, “Here’s a report of the problem from March 17 on Google’s Nexus One support forum: ‘When I have three or four separate text message conversations going, the software gets confused and sends texts to the wrong person some times. You will think that you are typing a response to contact A and then suddenly the contact name at the top switches to contact B.’ In addition to this problem, some users report texts sent to random people who aren’t in their address book.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Don’t worry, Verizon customers, just stop texting for now – soon you’ll be able to get the phone you really wanted.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "jubei" for the heads up.]
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