Comment on Apple says it will remove services such as FaceTime and iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security if new proposals are made law and acted upon.

• marmo7ade@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  19.7 million iphone users will be forced to use a cross-platform messaging service.

  GOOD

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  • sicjoke@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Until cross platform messaging is a good as iMessage and FaceTime from an iPhones user’s perspective it’s going to be bad.

    I have only ever used an iPhone (ignore non-smart phones) and have been weaned entirely on Apples stock apps. Conversely almost everyone I communicate regularly with is also an iPhone users. I do use other platform for communicating with non-apple friends but the experience is significantly poorer.

    I couldn’t say how many people existed within this almost exclusively Apple ecosystem but I would hazard a guess that there are a few.

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    • steltek@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Apple uses iMessage as a moat against people switching to Android. They intentionally degrade your experience for their benefit.

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      • sicjoke@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So you’re saying WhatsApp isn’t fucking horrible to use on Android?

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• Aux@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not in the UK.

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