Comment on Beeper users say Apple is now blocking their Macs from using iMessage entirely
Deebster@programming.dev 11 months agoYou’re right - but, as Cory Doctorow points out, Apple owe their success to reverse engineering, the thing they’re busy blocking now.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 11 months ago
They’re not blocking reverse engineering. They’re blocking unauthorized access to their servers.
Deebster@programming.dev 11 months ago
You’re being unnecessarily pedantic. Apple was blocking interoperability and reverse engineering found a solution—and Apple is blocking that solution.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 11 months ago
I’m not being remotely pedantic.
Apple reverse-engineered MS standards to improve interpretability so you could open Apple files on Windows and vise versa. They didn’t reverse engineer Windows security so that you could open Apple files on MS servers.
Deebster@programming.dev 11 months ago
Apple reverse engineered a file format, Beeper reverse engineered a protocol.
Microsoft made several changes to try to keep Apple out, Apple’s also made several changes to keep Beeper out, except now everyone’s online so it’s happening way faster.
It’s not exactly the same kind of reverse engineering, but I never said it was. I think you’ve got a very narrow definition of reverse engineering in your head and you’re criticising me for using it more broadly than you would.