Comment on Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app
onlinepersona@programming.dev 11 months ago
I think it’s a bit crazy to create a paid service on top of a reverse engineered product that isn’t static. Indivious, NewPipe and other youtube frontends aren’t going to create a paid youtube frontend, because they know Google could kill that at any point. Google could dedicate a full team to making youtube frontends non-functional.
Apple has a much bigger incentive to derail iMessage alternatives because they know that dumb parents have taught their kids how to live in a closed ecosystem and be slaves to Apple. 87% of teenagers use Apple, which means it’s only a matter of time before Apple becomes the dominant player on the market. If you want to keep making fat stacks of cash, the best thing you can do is control the market, which means killing of competition.
The only reason Apple would ever stop killing competitors is if it became legally and financially detrimental to do so. They’d have to reach Microsoft levels of antitrust and bad press before even considering backpedaling.
Everyone buying their products is helping Apple along to their goal of market dominance.
I mean, the proof of concept is open source, so anyone can go out and make their own iMessaging service now.
I’m okay with paying for this because they need to run a service for notifications and they also have to play this cat and mouse game with Apple.
The fact that Beeper has already come up with a patch to workaround Apple’s block show’s that they’re going to work hard to keep this service running.
Yeah if Apple is willing to invest tons of money to keep using literal slaves (or at least to be intentionally ignorant about slavery in their supply chain) they aren’t going to be chivalrous about someone circumventing their intentional attempts to amp up class based marketing pressure for their apps.
USAian
If you really want to go down that road, use something like “United Statesman” or something that actually fits the language. “Americanian” is absurd and people will take you less seriously for it.
Spanish has it: estadounidense (unitedstatesian)
Other than that, it’s no one’s fault but the USA’s they gave their country such a stupid name (stealing the one of the continent)
I really hate to break it to you, but the name “America” didn’t come from the Americans.
I hate to break it to you, but the name America as it was chosen by Europeans was meant to be the name of the continent.
The name USA was chosen by unitedstatesians when creating the country. A stupid mistake. Everyone else managed to picj a name, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Argentina… but not the USA.
USAian reads better than USAn 🤷 And I’m not going to type out “United Statesman” every time I want to refer to something USAian like a car. “United Statesman car”.
“USAian” doesn’t read better than anything when it’s a made up word that looks ridiculous. Just say “a US car” or “American”.
Kazumara@feddit.de 11 months ago
Do you mean US American teenagers, or North American teenagers, or who exactly? Surely that can’t be global?
ConsumptionOne@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
That stat came from an article that made the rounds a few weeks ago that cited a phone survey of 1000 or so kids in one small part of the US. Small, poorly controlled sample size, so bad data.
TheNeoStormZ@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It isn’t. As far as I know, iMessage is irrelevant in Europe.
menemen@lemmy.world 11 months ago
At least here in Germany whattsapp us the standard. Apple has a phone market share if ~30%.
But apple somehow managed to have pretty much all schools forcing their students to get an IPad. So the apple market share is increasing. I can not tell Hou how furious that makes me. Every parent has to buy one of those, so their children can use the most basic teaching apps, that any 100€ tablet could easily run. Poor children get an IPad on tax payers money, so I basically pay for my own children’s IPads and then a part of my tax money also flows to apple. I just wonder who (except Apple) got rich kn that deal… I fxxxing hate politicians.
aidan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Telegram is the standard in Eastern Europe
onlinepersona@programming.dev 11 months ago
Yeah, lemme edit it. USAian kids
Cethin@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
The correct term for that is American by the way, not USAian.
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yeah, I mean I totally get the annoyance of American being overloaded for both US person and of the American continents, but USAian ain’t the solution lol that kind of sucks (hard to say, no history to it, etc)
IHadTwoCows@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Chile is American
onlinepersona@programming.dev 11 months ago
No thanks. The USA doesn’t represent all of North and South America.