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,

  • Wrench
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    1 year ago

    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.

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        1 year ago

        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.

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          1 year ago

          And how does that stop bullying?

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      1 year 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