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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by standardUser on Thursday December 14, 2023 @07:58PM (#38649724)
If the product is so great why doesn't Apple make it available on more platforms? The answer is because it's not a product, it's a marketing tool. And a very successful one based on the widespread bullying it has caused.
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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by 7jjjjjjj on Friday December 15, 2023 @11:38AM (#38655805)
Apple did not "invent" instant messaging.
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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by frumper on Friday December 15, 2023 @01:30AM (#38651601)
Not many Apple products get made for non Apple devices.
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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by merrywhether on Friday December 15, 2023 @01:48AM (#38651682)
If Zelda is so great why doesn’t Nintendo make it available on more platforms? Being able to run Nintendo games is a prime feature of the Switch product, and being able to run Apple software and services is a prime feature of an iPhone product. By your definition anything useful about an item is simply a marketing tool?

It’d be a very different world if nothing was allowed to have unique access to anything. It might even be better, but it would be a long way from this current version of capitalism.

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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by potatototoo99 on Friday December 15, 2023 @03:30AM (#38652197)
The answer is the same: because their platform is not very good. So if buyers had the chance they'd instead buy Zelda games for the PC for instance.

It would be a real problem if Nintendo had a monopoly on good games on the US.

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