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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by meepmorp on Thursday December 14, 2023 @06:36PM (#38648991)
Theft of services, since Apple owns and maintains the iMessage system that Beeper is trying to use without compensating them (despite charging their own users for that access).
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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by dylan604 on Thursday December 14, 2023 @07:33PM (#38649526)
This is where Beeper 100% loses me in this fight. If you're using a 3rd party service as the backbone of your system that you turn around and charge people for, that's just total bullshit business plan. If you're doing this as a free service, I'd be much more interested. If you have a for-profit business, you need to be paying for the 3rd party thing that makes you possible.
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