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Don't forget the hubris from just 2 weeks ago: > Side note: many people always ask ‘what do you think Apple is going to do about this?’ To be honest, I am shoc
by okdood64 3y ago
Don't forget the hubris from just 2 weeks ago:
> Side note: many people always ask ‘what do you think Apple is going to do about this?’ To be honest, I am shocked that everyone is so shocked by the sheer existence of a 3rd party iMessage client. The internet has always had 3rd party clients! It’s almost like people have forgotten that iChat (the app that iMessage grew out of) was itself a multi-protocol chat app! It supported AIM, Jabber and Google talk. Here’s a blast from the past: https://i.imgur.com/k6rmOgq.png https://i.imgur.com/k6rmOgq.png.
Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38531759 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38531759
To now:
> As much as we want to fight for what we believe is a fantastic product that really should exist, the truth is that we can’t win a cat-and-mouse game with the largest company on earth.
I really do wonder what they genuinely thought was going to happen...
- erohead 3y agoI think those quotes still stand for themselves. Normalize 3rd party clients!
- mattgreenrocks 3y agoAdversarial interoperability needs to be explicitly legalized. The fact is these clients never face much in the way of market fitness tests, as they often use the threat of legal action to deter any other clients. This is not what computing should be. We've pretty much just let every rando user who doesn't really give a care about how this stuff goes down decide things for us.
- beeboobaa 3y agoWhat's the supposed hubris that you are talking about?
- okdood64 3y agoPerhaps the wrong term, but it seemed rather dismissive of the rather valid concern that Apple won't take kindly to what they're doing and try to stop them.
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