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> Apple is stopping unauthorized access a private network they run. In order to prevent competition, Apple does not provide services like Beeper an authorized
by iAMkenough 3y ago
> Apple is stopping unauthorized access a private network they run.
In order to prevent competition, Apple does not provide services like Beeper an authorized way to pay for access to their messaging protocol.
- wang_li 3y agoApple isn't preventing competition. There are numerous messaging apps available on iPhone. They are preventing non-customers from using a service provided for customers only. To make a bad analogy, it is like Jack's Auto Repair selling a service that enables Honda owners to use BMW service centers. And then Accord owners expecting to go to their nearby BMW dealer and get warranty repairs to their Honda. Apple has a simple solution here. Identify how many unique users are coming to the iMessasge service via Beeper's app and send Beeper a bill for one iPhone 15 Max Pro for each user.
- iAMkenough 3y agoI hope that any attempt Beeper made to negotiate authorized access is made public in an investigation, and Apple’s control of the default secure messaging service baked into all iOS telco customer devices is scrutinized. If they weren’t concerned about competition, we would have seen iMessage on Android a decade ago. If they wanted to provide iPhone users a default secure way of messaging competitor hardware, they would have pursued an open alternative to SMS before they faced antitrust investigations.
- jncfhnb 3y agoDon’t make bad analogies. They cheapen discussion.
- mrgoldenbrown 3y agoI am not a "non customer". I am an Apple customer who wants to access the same network from my Android devices and my Apple devices.
- giantrobot 3y agoStop being anticompetitive and give me access to your infrastructure. I should be able to sell a service running code on your hardware.
- iAMkenough 3y agoI hope cell providers get the option to bundle a secure messaging service that's compatible with all of their customer's devices. Right now a Verizon iPhone customer can't securely send a message to a Verizon Android customer without forcing their customer to download a third-party app and agree to its terms, and the carrier has no recourse to change that on their iOS devices they are selling to their customers. Vaguely reminds me a little bit of the web browser antitrust days. Regulators will catch up soon. At least Apple is planning to adopt RCS finally, even though they missed their chance to be part of the formation of the standard. Edit: Or Apple could release iMessage for Android and for web.
- Khaine 3y agoCarriers created RCS which is insecure. I don't think carriers care.
- iAMkenough 3y agoApple had a chance to participate in the foundation of RCS and passed on it. Now according to their legal counsel they have to adopt it.
- fn-mote 3y ago> carrier has no recourse to change that on their iOS devices they are selling to their customers. And thank goodness... I can only imagine the resulting flood: (1) ads in your messaging app; and (2) messages being scanned for targeted advertising (by the "less scrupulous", of course).
- iAMkenough 3y agoIf 1 and 2 happen, that might motivate Apple to implement a secure open standard that bypasses the carrier solution to "all of our customers can securely text each other with just their phone number." Apple will call it an innovation and sell the hell out of it.