Posted on 02/19/2018 11:52:52 AM PST by LouieFisk
We’re still not sure if it was a glitch, an “oops” or an intentional snub, but it looks like Easter Sunday has disappeared from Apple’s iPhone calendars under the company's latest software update.
Fox News reports some iPhone users have complained that Easter Sunday, which falls on April 1 this year and is the most important holiday in Christianity, has been erased from Apple’s calendar under its latest iOS version 11.2.5.
(Excerpt) Read more at mrctv.org ...
Go look at all the money Microsoft and their employees donate to leftist causes and have over the last 20 years. Their leftist promotion dwarfs Apple’s.
2012. Look at the date of the post.
Go look at my post above - you simply unsubscribe from whatever calendar that’s been selected (assuming it even has one, which most complainants don’t) and subscribe to the correct one.
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. Already, in the Eleventh Edition, we’re not far from that point. But the process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, there’s no reason or excuse for committing thoughtcrime. It’s merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won’t be any need even for that. The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. Newspeak is Ingsoc and Ingsoc is Newspeak,’
-1984 Part 1, Chapter 5 (with a hat-tip to KarlInOhio)
Probably if you do the latest update it will no longer be shown.
I did the most recent update to my Mac Air and the Calendar App has “US Holidays” listed and checked. Of course, due to the prejudice of Apple, Easter, although a US Holiday, is not listed. However, communists can rejoice, Earth Day is listed..
It brings to mind a quote from an essay in the early 1950s.
“The world is trying the experiment of attempting to form a civilized but non-Christian mentality. The experiment will fail; but we must be very patient in awaiting its collapse; meanwhile redeeming the time; so that the Faith may be preserved alive through the dark ages before us; to renew and rebuild civilization, and to save the world from suicide.”
T.S. Eliot, Christianity and Culture
Thanks for the “fix”/new “.ics” link instructions...will utilize them. But I think the point of the original post still stands...if Apple is eliminating Easter from the “default” U.S. holiday “.ics” file(s) then that would eliminate Easter on most every Apple user’s device. Shady, BS PC crud IMHO. With deranged school shooters, etc. we need more morality/religion/respect for life not less. Shame on Apple this time around.
Except they don’t seem to be. Most users don’t seem to be seeing this - the URLs I gave you are supposed to be for the file used by default, out of the box config. And it is - I just set up an iPhone SE today and it knew Easter was coming up.
Strange, my iPhones are definitely “default” for holidays, and I have no recollection of changing the “.ics” on my Mac Pro, yet no Easter. Will have to check and see what the default is supposed to be...”...//p14-calendars.icloud.com/holiday/US_en.ics” or your link or something else???
Whatever year you wish to go with the overall question remains - why the change?
Also, as a user on the official Apple forum has noted today:
“I shouldn’t have to manually add Easter or Good Friday into the calendar on my phone”
Bad PR all around.
Many Americans have come to embrace both the totalitarianism of “1984” and the prescribed hedonism of “Brave New World”.
So do you think there are no indigenous europeans? They came there from somewhere else.
Haven’t a clue.
The art of deflection.
The story isn't about Microsoft, it's about liberal actions by Apple.
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