Find My Device on Android

Re:Find My Device on Android by shuckles on Monday April 08, 2024 @10:43PM (#39975827)

You make fun of it, yet the ecosystem is so popular and well integrated that the US Department of Justice is suing them over it.

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Re:Find My Device on Android by worthless-trash on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @01:43AM (#39976451)

That's apple DOJ soon.

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Re:Find My Device on Android by arnavpraneet on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @07:20AM (#39978264)

at the Apple Inc. Sessions Court

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Re:Find My Device on Android by idle_zealot on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @02:45AM (#39976738)

The issue is not that they have a well-integrated ecosystem, it's that they build features into their products that only their other products are allowed to use. There would be no need for action if Apple designed a popular ecosystem that all of your devices could participate in.

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Re:Find My Device on Android by lotsofpulp on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @08:01AM (#39978517)

Are there laws against that “issue”?

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Re:Find My Device on Android by idle_zealot on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @08:07AM (#39978546)

Sure, in the EU.

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Re:Find My Device on Android by shuckles on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @09:54AM (#39979466)

This is irrelevant. The comment was about Apple’s preferred way of locating lost phones was Apple Watch so they don’t support pinging it from an AirTag. This has nothing to do with 3rd party support, and in fact 3rd parties (Tile) do have the feature Apple doesn’t for their item trackers.

Apple not allowing 3rd parties use of their proprietary technology is not the entirety of the DoJ’s argument. For example, their claims about Messages and Apple Watch are about support Apple hasn’t built, not about what they prevent 3rd parties from building.

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