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.

  • UglyheadEnglish
    8•5 months ago

    I wish this kind of thing was more spotlighted when Palm and Windows Phone developers were trying to use Google API’s to make apps for their OS’s and got shut down at every turn, eventually killing off the Palm and WP because of device lock-in on apps.

    I still miss what Palm could have been before Google bent them over a barrel with their massively anti-competitive bs.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•5 months ago

      Palm terrified them.

      Palm apps were tiny, took trivial resources, and could provide a lot of what was done with new apps on Android. Dictionaries, calculators, games (I played monopoly on a Treo, it looked great). I watched Mp4 movies on a Treo.

      Imagine Android with a Palm Subsystem so all those old Palm apps could run. It would’ve majorly slowed Android app adoption, perhaps even giving enough support to allow PalmOS architecture to develop into a competitor to Android.