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‘Even stronger’ than imagined: DOJ’s sweeping Apple lawsuit draws expert praise (www.theverge.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[+] [email protected] -6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

People forget the state of SMS before Apple decided to tell telcos to go fuck themselves and rolled out iMessage.

Americans would still be paying per-text message without Apple.

[–] gorgori 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

All fine and dandy. Kudos to Apple for the innovation! But then they decided to keep it strictly inside Apple.

That's not how communication works. Imagine if Bell kept the telephone to themselves... Oh wait... They tried... Got sued for it... Company broke up and the whole world got interoperable telephone system that is alive to this day.

Innovation is great, capitalizing on innovation is also great. But eventually it needs to reach everyone and the answer cannot be "then everyone should buy Apple".

Imagine if DARPA kept the Internet as "Americans only"

[–] [email protected] -5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So you’re saying iPhones are as important to humanity as the internet and should be equally regulated as such?

[–] gorgori 1 points 8 months ago

You missed the entire point. Typical Apple fanboy.

The iphone isn't at all important to humanity and that's why it should be regulated. Especially when something so unimportant gets such a large market dominance.

Anyone should be able to buy anything and expect things to be interoperable.

I like the airpods. They don't work properly on android. Why?

They could easily license out the tech and other companies will pay billions for it. and Apple will get their ROI.

Intel was forced to license x86.

Face it. Apple's behavior is visibly monopolistic. It wouldn't have landed on DOJ's desk if there were no good reason.