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Re:The walls of Apple's garden are tumbling down by sonofhans on Saturday April 27, 2024 @03:03PM (#40182513)
You’re going to have to be much more specific if you want to make any sense. All cell phones can already call other cell phones. All cell phones can already message other cell phones.
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Re:The walls of Apple's garden are tumbling down by Teever on Saturday April 27, 2024 @05:32PM (#40183758)
Yeah, exactly, and we should continue to see the regulated implementation of these kinds of interoperability at all levels of the stack.
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Re:The walls of Apple's garden are tumbling down by FireBeyond on Saturday April 27, 2024 @05:49PM (#40183883)
You ignore that for a while that actually wasn't the case. If you left the Apple ecosystem, for multiple years the steps to get your number/account disassociated from iMessage so your contacts could reach you by SMS again were not default, not obvious, and not disclosed.
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