U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly

Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by baq on Thursday March 21, 2024 @02:21PM (#39782394)

I postulate people would gladly pay a cup of coffee's worth for a first party app and/or subscription. Certainly easier than shelling out a few hundred bucks for an iDevice.

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by criddell on Thursday March 21, 2024 @02:31PM (#39782539)

That’s kind of what I think. Make an iCloud subscription tier that includes access to messages and then include it in the web-browser version of iCloud and make an Android app for messages. I can’t imagine it would have to cost much more than $10-$15.

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by warkdarrior on Thursday March 21, 2024 @04:30PM (#39783981)

This would be an Apple service. It'd cost $99/month to view the text of messages on non-iPhone devices, and an additional $99/month to view any photos/videos/emojis attached to messages.

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by Apocryphon on Thursday March 21, 2024 @06:25PM (#39785189)

The base plan for iCloud+ is 99 cents a month and the next tier is $2.99, they're pretty reasonable about these services.

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