“DOS ain’t done til Lotus won’t run”
Whether that was ever fully policy at Microsoft, people sure believed it was.
1995 was also around the time MS was pursing its embrace-extend-extinguish strategy to the internet with internet explorer.
Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
by ffgjgf1 on Saturday December 09, 2023 @03:38AM
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> If you told people in 1995
Really? Wasn’t that somewhat common back then?
I want to use adb to communicate with my iPhones. Google is evil using adb as a moat and locking away my access to adb! See how silly that sounds?
Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
by flkenosad on Saturday December 09, 2023 @09:09AM
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It only sounds silly if you have a highly technical background.
What are you trying to say? That iMessage is somehow "required" to interoperate with others because it does not require a highly technical background to use, but adb is exempt? I'm not following your train of thought.
Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
by positus on Saturday December 09, 2023 @11:07AM
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> What if I want Android because SyncThing works better on it than on iOS? Then I can't have iMessage?
Correct. iMessage is an Apple service. If you want to make use of Apple services you should probably use Apple products. \_O_/
If you told people in 1995 that operating system vendors and service providers would arbitrarily block certain apps to lock you into their ecosystem people wouldn't have believed you.