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

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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    onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Kids are monsters. Nothing you ever do will stop bullying at school. Humans will always find a reason to hurt each other.
    
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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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