Comment on Senator Warren calls out Apple for shutting down Beeper's 'iMessage to Android' solution

ghastly_03_startup@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Wrench@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why would they do that? The point is exclusivity to foster peer pressure to all be on iPhone. Google offered to integrate with iMessage and vice versa, so that consumers would have the best experience regardless of platform, ages ago. Apple declined, and then removed some of Googles office suite apps from their store.

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  • DJKayDawg@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Step 1) use peer pressure to get teens on platform

    Step 2) vendor lock-in to keep them as lifetime customers

    Step 3) profit

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    • onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You need the dumb parents to participate. If parents just said “no, you’re getting an android”, this wouldn’t be a problem. Parents are complicit.

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      • dog_@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And how does that stop bullying?

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They would do that because they suddenly changed their mind about their strategy needing to keep things as proprietary as possible. It’s unlikely, but apple did do that to a degree with osx

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• CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not how capitalism works. Sadly

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• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They specifically don’t want to do this. They’ve admitted that they want peer pressure to support and bolster their iPhone sales.

  It’s super fucked up.

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