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Apple is not abusing anyone (maybe their assembly workers, but even that is a stretch). They are providing a service and no one is forced to use it. At the off
by ppeetteerr 8y ago
Apple is not abusing anyone (maybe their assembly workers, but even that is a stretch). They are providing a service and no one is forced to use it.
At the office, we use Slack and Webex for communication. With some friends, we use Skype and Messenger for video calls, with others it's FaceTime. No one is ostracized for having an Android. Not at work and certainly not in private.
How do you feel like you're being imposed on?
- thomastjeffery 8y agoFrom Wikipedia: > Abuse is the improper usage or treatment of an entity, often to unfairly or improperly gain benefit. I would say that their actions clearly fit that description. They are abusing their customers by preventing them from using software outside their controlled ecosystem, and they are purposefully creating incompatible communication protocols in order to make everything around them effectively worse.
- ppeetteerr 8y agoYou could prevent others from using alternative systems by simply not collaborating with other players (for any one of a million reasons) and not building compatible software. It's not abuse, it's the belief that they don't need other parties to build great product.