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Re:Fred Wilson: By 2020 Apple Won’t Be A Top-3 Tech Company;... by ryanburk on Monday May 05, 2014 @07:26PM (#7701940)
the brilliant proprietary lock-in is actually iMessage. once you've been using it for a while with others in the apple ecosystem, getting out is amazingly painful since your contact information is cached as iMessage capable for weeks on your contacts' devices. you can call apple support to remove the number from your icloud account but it still needs to time out in your network.
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Re:Fred Wilson: By 2020 Apple Won’t Be A Top-3 Tech Company;... by noblethrasher on Monday May 05, 2014 @07:45PM (#7702032)
I fixed it for my mom by connecting her old iPhone to WiFi, and then deactivating iMessages. Not sure how well that would have worked in the case that she had multiple iDevices.
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Re:Fred Wilson: By 2020 Apple Won’t Be A Top-3 Tech Company;... by fleitz on Monday May 05, 2014 @08:18PM (#7702155)
The other great part of the lock-in is that it works seemlessly, doesn't send your text messages to the wrong people, nor makes you sign up for Google+, nor outs you to your coworkers.
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