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

  • kpw
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    2711 months ago

    Yes, they should be legally required to open up access to their service. No more walled gardens that hold a large number of users hostage.

    • @[email protected]
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      -511 months ago

      So by this thinking all cars should have compatible parts.

      The world just ain’t that way bruh

      • kpw
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        411 months ago

        That would be awesome, wouldn’t it be?

        Do you think we live in the best possible of worlds where nothing can be improved anymore?

      • @Maggoty
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        11 months ago

        Fun fact, a lot of parts are compatible between cars. But really this is like if they were able to stop a machine shop from creating a replacement part.

      • @[email protected]
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        111 months ago

        Bad analogy. It’s more like, Apple has its own roads that are exclusively for their cars.

        • Eggyhead
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          111 months ago

          Like someone’s private property that they can kind of do what they want with? Makes sense.

                • Eggyhead
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                  111 months ago

                  I’d be more inclined to believe you if you weren’t throwing ad hominems around in what seems to be an amateurish effort to save face for some reason…

                  • @[email protected]
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                    11 months ago

                    I don’t think you’re interested in reasoning at all, hence my disinterest in doing so. The Apple fanboys believe that everything Apple is good, even if it’s against their own interests.

                    I don’t like a company that deliberately manipulates people into recruiting more customers, like forcing them to exclude others from conversations because they have an android phone, but doing absolutely nothing to fix it, in fact, deliberately not fixing it and making the Apple users feel superior because “look what iMessage can do”. I mean yeah, I’ve been able to do what iMessage did since back when a thing called MXit or BlackBerry messenger was around. But of course there’s this assumption of superiority from the Apple users, because Apple is just superior right?

                    I was using a touch screen phone for like a year and a half before the iPhone even came out, but apparently it was Apple who revolutionised the market.

                    Just look at their shitty lightning cables, used for nothing but extortion.

                    But, the Apple dick suckers, will suck Apple dick until the day they die, because Steve Jobs, the person who perfected modern day planned obsolescence and has caused millions of tons of unnecessary e-waste, told them that by owning an apple product, they are superior.

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        11 months ago

        And when some developer comes at you and shows how they did some work to make a part compatible with your cars, you go “fuck it, redo all existing cars to make all 3rd party incompatible!” instead of “ok do that at your own risk”.