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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by orangecat on Thursday December 14, 2023 @08:59PM (#38650237)
Now apply this logic to any other company product

Ok...third parties should be able to sell ink that works in your HP printer, or coffee pods that work in your Keurig, or tires that work on your Ford.

tell me if this sounds as ridiculous to you as it does me

It sounds not ridiculous at all. The only difference with Beeper is that there is some marginal cost to handling messages, but we all know that's not Apple's real problem with it.

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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by inferiorhuman on Friday December 15, 2023 @12:17AM (#38651244) 

  …third parties should be able to sell
To take that analogy a step further: third parties can sell messaging apps for iOS.
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