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Re:Apple iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max by spease on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @02:25AM (#41497757)
End to end encryption is a reasonable justification for a visual indicator.
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Re:Apple iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max by morcheeba on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @03:11AM (#41498013)
Originally it was because iMessages were free, while SMS were $0.15-$0.20 each. So glad Apple broke that monopoly, along with many other anti-consumer wireless provider restrictions.
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Re:Apple iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max by jampekka on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @06:01AM (#41499152)
Did Apple really break that monopoly? WhatsApp was released 2009 with the explicit pitch that it was "free SMS". iMessage launched 2011, and with the anti-consumer Apple lock-in, and isn't even much used outside US.

Also free/unlimited SMS was prevalent in many countries before WhatsApp or iMessage. And there were plenty of IMs before that too.

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