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Senator Warren calls out Apple for shutting down Beeper's 'iMessage to Android' solution (techcrunch.com)
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Senator Warren calls out Apple for shutting down Beeper's 'iMessage to Android' solution::U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is throwing her weight behind Beeper, the app that allowed Android users to message iPhone users via iMessage,

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Step 1) use peer pressure to get teens on platform

Step 2) vendor lock-in to keep them as lifetime customers

Step 3) profit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And how does that stop bullying?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 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