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Beeper vs Apple battle intensifies: Lawmakers demand DOJ investigation - Android Authority (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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US senators have urged the DOJ to probe Apple's alleged anti-competitive conduct against Beeper.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don’t need trollish, outlandish, inflammatory language to make a point, nor will it gain any favorability to any argument I hear. I get that it upsets you, but it also doesn’t affect you in any way. Literally the only people who encounter any side of this issue are Apple users, and anyone can just use a secondary chat app to avoid it. I literally have 6 chat apps installed on my phone, and I only use iMessage for less than ten people. Does that annoy me? Not really. I just keep all chat apps in a folder called “social” and treat that folder as if it’s its own cross-platform message app.

Nobody is being “forced” to do anything. People have options.
Who did what first doesn’t even matter. It’s merely interesting at best, but is beside the point and doesn’t lend any precedence to anything being discussed here.

Here’s the thing, if I had “friends” forcing me out of conversations just because I couldn’t so much as use iMessage with them, I’d question my own standing in that friendship and its actual value to me.

Ask if there’s an app they preferred to use for non-Apple users, and see if you’re willing to join them there.
Just tell them which app you use and how to reach you there. If they really need to reach you, they can just contact you that way.
Let them keep using iMessage. Poor resolution images and green bubbles will be their problem to deal with, not yours.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I wasn't trying to argue, that's the point, like I said, I don't bother reasoning with true Apple fans, because they're weird about it. Hence me just going blah blah apple dick sucker. I don't feel like bothering with people obsessed with a corporation that abuses them.

Luckily I don't live in a country where iMessage even matters. But in the US I've heard some shitty stuff about the segregation, and it's working, more people are buying Apple devices, often times not because that's what they originally wanted. That kind of behavior is extremely predatory and generally not okay.

I work with Apple build servers every day, and they're such a piece of shit company that they even punish (read exploit) you for developing for their platform.

Now my analogy was pretty succinct I thought. We have the general roads where all cars can travel on, and then we get apple roads that only Apple cars can travel on, and sure you can build 2 driveways at your house, one for the apps that everyone else uses, and one for your apple car, but going by the posts any time anything like this comes up, people would rather have their apple driveway and apple roads and only visit friends who also are on apple roads. And it's BS manipulation.