Comment on Elizabeth Warren slammed for wanting to ‘break up Apple’s smartphone monopoly’
thehatfox@lemmy.world 2 months agoThing is with the iMessage argument is nobody is forced to use it. If green bubbles really are “ruining relationships” wouldn’t Americans be installing WhatsApp or another messenger like the rest of the world?
There are plenty of good reasons to criticise Apple’s behaviour. But I’m not convinced the popularity of iMessage is one of them.
andrew0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
How will you move to WhatsApp if everyone else uses iMessage? Europe has the same issue, but reversed. Everyone uses WhatsApp and can’t jump to Signal/Telegram because they’re not that well known.
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Don’t jump to Telegram. It sucks.
WhatsApp sucks too, but at least it’s protected from hooligans. Unlike Telegram.
From state surveillance viewpoint both suck.
MudMan@fedia.io 2 months ago
As a non-American stuck with a terrible dual Whatsapp setup I can't kill due to network effects, this is true.
The counterargument is that any one platform will have this issue, so you'd need full interoperability. Except in direct messaging full interoperability is a bit of a security issue.