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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by CivBase on Thursday December 14, 2023 @07:18PM (#38649404)
Right. This is much more similar to MS and Internet Explorer back in 98.

Interestingly enough, one of the outcomes of that case was IE for the Mac.

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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by jonhohle on Thursday December 14, 2023 @07:50PM (#38649656)
It required no ongoing infrastructure for people to use IE either on Windows or on Mac. iMessage requires servers, bandwidth, and operators.
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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by CivBase on Friday December 15, 2023 @11:03AM (#38655438)
Yeah, they're definitely not identical. But from an antitrust perspective I think the MS case is at least much more similar.
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