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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by jobs_throwaway on Thursday March 21, 2024 @01:46PM (#39781929)
You are specifically choosing to not have message interoperability? Why?
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by supportengineer on Thursday March 21, 2024 @01:49PM (#39781968)
We have message interoperability already. I can install any messenger of my choosing. I can install WeChat, Facebook Messenger, Slack, Signal, etc, etc.

But I don't need any of those because 99% of the people I communicate with are on iMessage.

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by skeaker on Thursday March 21, 2024 @01:55PM (#39782039)
And again, you choose to not be able to communicate with that 1% over iMessage why? It sounds like being able to do so would only benefit you.
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by supportengineer on Thursday March 21, 2024 @02:07PM (#39782188)
I actually offered to buy that person an iPhone. But regardless, no one is a victim here.
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by skeaker on Thursday March 21, 2024 @02:26PM (#39782456)
Seems it would have costed you a lot less if Apple just didn't arbitrarily block that person in the first place.
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by jgwil2 on Thursday March 21, 2024 @04:19PM (#39783864)
If that person had taken you up on that offer, you would literally be a victim of their anticompetitive practices.
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by dleink on Thursday March 21, 2024 @02:20PM (#39782381)
Android has a 70% global market share. You really only communicate with one person of that 70%?
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by mattl on Thursday March 21, 2024 @03:52PM (#39783563)
Everyone I communicate with who has an Android device has WhatsApp or Signal installed. Same is true of 99% of iPhone users.
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