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> yet another competing platform People are advocating for the opposite. Make apple stop using their anti-competitive market to harm alternative messaging app
by stale2002 5y ago
> yet another competing platform
People are advocating for the opposite. Make apple stop using their anti-competitive market to harm alternative messaging apps.
> If iMessage was cross platform, it’s just another messaging app.
No, it is just as good, and better if it is forced to be cross platform.
You lose nothing, and everyone else gains, when anti-competitive markets are made to support alternatives.
> If you want secure cross platform messaging
Or, instead of that, we could use anti-trust law, against Apple to force them to be less anti-competitive, and allow other people to integrate with it. Problem solved.
- threeseed 5y ago> messaging anti-competitive market I love how it's such an anti-competitive market that in many countries Apple isn't even close to being a popular service. WhatsApp, WeChat, Kakao, Line etc dominate in non-Western countries.
- lxgr 5y agoEven in all of Western Europe, WhatsApp clearly dominates, with iMessage coming in third or fourth in popularity in my practical experience (after Signal and lately, unfortunately, Telegram).