They’d have to allow any app to replace iMessages as their sms client
Comment on Beeper vs Apple battle intensifies: Lawmakers demand DOJ investigation - Android Authority
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 9 months agoThey aren’t excluding competitors. Anyone is free to write a cross platform messaging app that has blue bubbles in it. The preloading thing could be an issue if you can’t uninstall imessage. Otherwise it would follow the IE/edge ruling.
But we’ll see what the courts say.
holdthecheese@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Zak@lemmy.world 9 months ago
We’re far from court cases. What we have right now is politicians asking the Department of Justice to investigate. I suspect that’s more likely to go nowhere as it is to go to court.
If it did go to court, either side of the smartphone/messenger equation could be argued as anticompetitive use of market power, or both; they could claim that Apple used its market power in smartphones to popularize its messenger service, which it then used to increase its market share in smartphones.