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Too late. They are clearly abusing their monopoly position to lock in users and degrade the experience of non users. This is clear anticompetitive behavior. Th
by more_corn 3y ago
Too late. They are clearly abusing their monopoly position to lock in users and degrade the experience of non users. This is clear anticompetitive behavior.
They have further begun abusing their monopoly position to force customers into paid iCloud storage in order to use iMessage as intended (anyone curious should attempt to opt out and then try to manage iMessage iCloud storage. It is impossible in hilariously pointed ways)
I have been contacted my attorney general and the FTC to request that they take action against Apple for illegal anticompetitive practices.
I recommend everyone else here do the same. Apple and non apple customers will be equally benefitted by anti trust action. (Which is obviously the point of government intervention)
- epanchin 3y agoJust use WhatsApp. It’s not a monopoly if there’s already an alternative.
- gumby 3y agoIn what way do they "degrade the experience of non users"? If you have an iphone they will use imessage and you get all the features. If you are not in an iphone they try to shoehorn the features as best they can (e.g. instead of displaying a heart on a photo or comment already sent they send "more_corn liked the photo"). What else can/should do you recommend they do? And messages sent over SMS can't be encrypted, unlike ones sent over imessage so they mark them differently -- great! Now they are adding support for the RCS extension to SMS so that RCS users can get higher resolution photos. And somehow they are degrading the experience? Maybe you should be mad at FB messenger, Whatsapp, Signal etc that don't even communicate with SMS users at all.
- unstatusthequo 3y agoLOL as if Google isn’t doing the same? I sure see a lot of Google shit on an Android phone. Some you have to pay for! Some that work better on Android than Apple! Google as forced search engine! Preposterous! Insulting! You’ve inspired me to contact my attorney general and the FTC to look into these illegal and anticompetitive practices.