Senator Warren calls out Apple for shutting down Beeper's 'iMessage to Android' solution | TechCrunch
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U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is throwing her weight behind Beeper, the app that allowed Android users to message iPhone users via iMessage,

Senator Warren calls out Apple for shutting down Beeper’s ‘iMessage to Android’ solution::U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is throwing her weight behind Beeper, the app that allowed Android users to message iPhone users via iMessage,

  • Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I think the argument comes in that, this actually doesn’t apply to those who don’t have said system. Imagine instead it’s a stamp that only applies differences if the recipient also subscribes to said stamp service. To everyone else, it’s just a regular letter. I can easily go use a different service of the same type to achieve the same benefits.

    And yeah, they do use their system to benefit their shareholders, which is what businesses do with their proprietary services.

    Im not arguing for this by any means, just trying to play devils advocate as for why Apple would want to maintain control over it and why I think it’s odd that the government wants to get involved. I feel like companies like amazon do more impractical shit to maintain control over the market, but bubble colors just aren’t anywhere near the top of the list for things I think politicians need to spend time talking about.

    I wouldn’t be upset if they forced apples hand, though, others have pointed out that it would even the competive market for other manufacturers

    • LilPappyWigwam@lemm.eeEnglish
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      11 months ago

      First off, just want to thank you for the civil discourse. It’s why we are here, right?

      But in your rebuttal… keep in mind that the iPhone users are effected in as much as the only solution an iPhone user can currently offer (when their iPhone image is compressed to a nearly illegible degree after being sent to any non-iPhone user) is “maybe you should buy an iPhone like I did” or they have to use an entirely different system to resend the image (this latter solution being more inconvenient to the iPhone user).

      As someone said below:

      “Apple could release their own iMessage client for Android if this were really about trusting beeper, but it’s not. It’s about using peer pressure with blue bubbles to sell more iPhones.”

      I feel its either sunken-cost-fallacy-as-brand-ambassadorship or simply (yet another example of) bad faith arguments to support such underhanded “but… is it illegal?” behavior that borders on needing current anti-trust requirements to be reevaluated.