Re:Beeper – Moving Forward
by AnthonyMouse on Friday December 22, 2023 @04:38AM
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> My understanding is that Beeper reverse engineered their APIs and people expect Apple to just accept it?
It forces Apple to explicitly do the equivalent of Microsoft making competing word processors malfunction in DOS to pressure people to use Microsoft Word.
> How is it much different from blocking a hacker who's poking around to find holes?
That's the easy one. Interoperability is legitimate, credit card fraud isn't.
It forces Apple to explicitly do the equivalent of Microsoft making competing word processors malfunction in DOS to pressure people to use Microsoft Word.
> How is it much different from blocking a hacker who's poking around to find holes?
That's the easy one. Interoperability is legitimate, credit card fraud isn't.