Beeper vs Apple battle intensifies: Lawmakers demand DOJ investigation
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US senators have written to the Department of Justice to investigate Apple's anti-competitive behavior towards Beeper.

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

  • kingthrillgore@lemmy.mlEnglish
    166·
    10 months ago

    At the root of this issue is that Google never built a messaging service that could survive Google’s management shuffle. I understand people want Apple to bend the knee, but this is not their problem. It’s perfectly fine for them to intercede Beeper’s reverse engineering.

    If you’re an Android user and you need a messaging app, Signal is 100% open source, secure, and it works on iOS too, so tell your friends!

    • rdri@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      10 months ago

      And you assume your apple-using friends will listen to you? They are really a part of the problem at least. Google would need to create an app they would want to install by themselves, and this is not exactly easy, if possible at all. Google users are mostly fine with having many apps for communication, apple users are mostly not.

      • pup_atlas@pawb.socialEnglish
        31·
        10 months ago

        I am fully in the Apple ecosystem, including my phone, work laptop, personal laptop, and an Apple watch. I pretty much exclusively use telegram, and sometimes Discord, not iMessage— and that’s not a niche or unpopular opinion in my experience either. This is absolutely because Google can’t stick with one app or product long enough to gain any market share. Each time they have tried, it’s lasted barely a year or so before they killed it.

    • BoofStroke@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Apples bundling of iMessage is a barrier to entry. See also the findings of fact for Microsoft vs DoJ during the “browser wars”