US senators have urged the DOJ to probe Apple’s alleged anti-competitive conduct against Beeper.

  • jon@lemmy.tf
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    11 months ago

    Why would they need to look into Apple’s conduct here? Investigate Beeper for CFAA violations since they cracked into Apple’s internal APIs and ignored large chunks of their ToS in the process.

    Of course Apple is going to shut down unauthorized access to their messaging system. They’d lose all customer trust instantly if they didn’t.

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      11 months ago

      Reverse engineering for interoperability is legal, is it not? This is interoperability.