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Re:Apple's iMessage Avoids EU's Digital Markets Act Regulation by tremarley on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @11:46AM (#39359602)
‘iMessage plays a pivotal role in the success of the iPhone and contributes significantly to Apple's business is inaccurate.’

If you ask many iPhone users why they use an iPhone rather than an Android. They would tell you iMessage first.

Many iPhone users won’t even consider an Android, only because of iMessage and no other reason.

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Re:Apple's iMessage Avoids EU's Digital Markets Act Regulation by wkat4242 on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @12:40PM (#39360323)
Not in Europe. Almost nobody uses iMessage here. It's because the marketshare of Apple is much lower in most EU countries.

I'm glad because I use android also.

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Re:Apple's iMessage Avoids EU's Digital Markets Act Regulation by SSLy on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @11:54AM (#39359724)
Re-read parent's last sentence.
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Re:Apple's iMessage Avoids EU's Digital Markets Act Regulation by makeitdouble on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @12:20AM (#39366781)
Parent's arguing that a minority of users have different motives and view it as a Veblen good. Might be true, but what about the rest of the iPhone users ?
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Re:Apple's iMessage Avoids EU's Digital Markets Act Regulation by threeseed on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @04:04PM (#39362796)
> If you ask many iPhone users why they use an iPhone rather than an Android. They would tell you iMessage first.

Likewise if you ask many iPhone users they won't tell you iMessage first.

That's the magic and wonder of meaningless anecdotes.

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