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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by modeless on Thursday December 14, 2023 @06:56PM (#38649206)
We're talking here about literally the most valuable public company in the world and a product (iPhone) used on average dozens of times and several hours daily by nearly 50% of the US population. I'm generally a free market kind of guy but even I admit that at this scale it is OK to apply different standards.
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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by danaris on Friday December 15, 2023 @10:52AM (#38655321)
Speaking as a life-long Apple user who mostly thinks the rampant attacks on Apple are basically the same as the ones people have been throwing for 30+ years, just with "Apple is dying, no one should use their stuff" replaced with "Apple is too big/tyrannical, no one should use their stuff"...

I agree.

But.

The solution to that is to get antitrust regulators to step in and use the force of the law to change things.

Not to cheer on a third party using security vulnerabilities to piggyback onto Apple's service and charge a subscription for it.

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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by modeless on Friday December 15, 2023 @11:08AM (#38655496)
There is no security vulnerability, that is FUD. They're charging a subscription to fix Apple's bugs that intentionally cripple communication communication with Android phones for Apple's own benefit and nobody else's.
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