I'm slowly reducing my reliance on Apple and have already abstained from getting the new watch or adding homepod minis to my current apple tv and homepod setup. And hopefully, as these devices weather out I will definitely make it a priority to not buy into a closed system like this again.
I made the same move away from Google about 5 years ago. It took me a year or so, mostly because it took a while to unthread Gmail from everything.
That we can do this means we do in fact have a choice.
What if some day your account was banned because you said something against the "community guidelines" of Apple? Will your car, phone, TV still work? Will Apple buy them back?
That is a fictional what if.
More importantly, it would be a field day for lawyers.
Don't see any lawyer field day yet.
Can you point to cases where people have been locked out of their Android phones?
If so, I’m surprised lawyers aren’t involved.
It’s not clear though, what this has to do with app stores.
If we think companies shouldn’t be able to lock us out of their products for speech violations, that seems like an important consumer protection that should apply to all companies.
But none of the others are allowed to integrate into the phone the way imessage does.
This "choice" is such a complete lie and I've heard it repeated so many times it's actually starting to make me angry.
- Everyone with an iPhone will have an account (the phone is practically unusable without one.)
- The app is built into the OS, when combined with the previous 2 integrations that makes it the only thing most iphone users are willing to use unless they have a very very good reason not to.
- I think the sharing UI has some special imessage-only shortcuts
The fourth hasn’t been true for a long time.
How is this so hard for you to understand, iMessage gets shoved in people's faces and is activated automatically. It's extremely anticompetitive and isolates people not on apples platform. It's far worse than anything microsoft did in the 90s.
All it does is improve the use experience for people who do use Apple’s platform. They are just as able to communicate with people who have SMS as they were before and vice versa. You are going to need to explain this ‘isolation’.
Literally billions of people use competing messaging apps such as WhatsApp or Facebook messenger.
- Switching operating systems doesn't prevent you from receiving messages in Facebook groups you were in.
I'm not going to respond again because I don't think you're reading my responses. If you can't understand that ask your parents or caretaker for help.
iMessage is for Apple devices. You are free to choose from SMS, What’s app, and all the others.
You should be able to transfer files by plugging in your Android to the MacBook via USB. Something that you can’t do with an iPhone in the same way.
The rest are all Apple products in Apple’s ecosystem.
I pay to use Apple because the ecosystem is closed.