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We're talking here about literally the most valuable public company in the world and a product (iPhone) used on average dozens of times and several hours daily
by modeless 3y ago
We're talking here about literally the most valuable public company in the world and a product (iPhone) used on average dozens of times and several hours daily by nearly 50% of the US population. I'm generally a free market kind of guy but even I admit that at this scale it is OK to apply different standards.
- danaris 3y agoSpeaking as a life-long Apple user who mostly thinks the rampant attacks on Apple are basically the same as the ones people have been throwing for 30+ years, just with "Apple is dying, no one should use their stuff" replaced with "Apple is too big/tyrannical, no one should use their stuff"... I agree. But. The solution to that is to get antitrust regulators to step in and use the force of the law to change things. Not to cheer on a third party using security vulnerabilities to piggyback onto Apple's service and charge a subscription for it.
- modeless 3y agoThere is no security vulnerability, that is FUD. They're charging a subscription to fix Apple's bugs that intentionally cripple communication communication with Android phones for Apple's own benefit and nobody else's.