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We'll never get to live in this world while people are still obsessed with walled gardens. Apple actively intervenes to keep itself at the center of our lives.
by vinceguidry 2y ago
We'll never get to live in this world while people are still obsessed with walled gardens. Apple actively intervenes to keep itself at the center of our lives. Everybody else just lives with it. And this will continue as long as the US grants privileges to the tech sector by refusing to apply standard anti-trust enforcement that it applies routinely to every other economic sector.
Nothing would make me happier than a world without Apple. I'd settle for a world without iMessage.
- aniviacat 2y ago> I'd settle for a world without iMessage. Come visit Europe ;)
- mdp2021 2y ago> Europe Where people without Zuck-owned messaging system are like once those with undisclosed numbers.
- epidemian 2y agoOr South America :)
- vinceguidry 2y agoVisit? What would that accomplish? I'd have to move.
- imoverclocked 2y agoThere is still SMS. :)
- vinceguidry 2y agoThere would be if Apple hadn't colonized it like it was south-east Asia.
- imoverclocked 2y agoI mean, there are many proprietary “additions” to SMS. They often don’t work well with each other and telcos often have really odd controls that they place on that line of communication. iMessage still lets you send/receive via SMS if you want all of those caveats.