FCC commissioner cries antitrust again after Beeper Mini debacle

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Apple’s systematic shutdown of the iMessage-on-Android app.

Beeper Mini as a kind of Robin Hood stealing iMessage from the rich and greedy Apple to deliver it to the masses that deserve blue bubble texts.

Apple only offering iMessage on iPhone is an accessibility issue. 

Apple is violating Part 14 of its rules on making services accessible.

Apple purposefully degrades messages from Android, like by reducing image resolution. 

Apple shutting down Beeper Mini's implementation of iMessage on Android. 

The green bubble versus blue bubble battle has caught the eye of lawmakers and governmental officials of all stripes.

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I removed all the deceptive opinions you flooded your article with and left behind the facts. Apple won’t allow iMessage on Android, and this is absolutely against the consumer. This is why we need better messaging protocols like XMTP and Farcaster. 

applecolin said:

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I removed all the deceptive opinions you flooded your article with and left behind the facts. Apple won’t allow iMessage on Android, and this is absolutely against the consumer. This is why we need better messaging protocols like XMTP and Farcaster. 

Let me get this straight: Company A has some servers that are performing A-internal functions for A's own products, then company B discovers a way to hack into those servers and make them do stuff for company B, and company A responds by disabling the hack a few days later, then company A is "absolutely against the consumer," because you say so? And your opinion trumps that of A and all of A's customers even if 99% of them are perfectly OK with A's actions in disabling that hack — but that doesn't make you anti-consumer at all.

I can't imagine how I would justify such an opinion.. unless I had a severe, ulterior dislike of Apple and its customers, and on that basis I hungered for any rationale for Apple to be screwed with in any way possible.

applecolin said:

Apple’s systematic shutdown of the iMessage-on-Android app.

Beeper Mini as a kind of Robin Hood stealing iMessage from the rich and greedy Apple to deliver it to the masses that deserve blue bubble texts.

Apple only offering iMessage on iPhone is an accessibility issue. 

Apple is violating Part 14 of its rules on making services accessible.

Apple purposefully degrades messages from Android, like by reducing image resolution. 

Apple shutting down Beeper Mini's implementation of iMessage on Android. 

The green bubble versus blue bubble battle has caught the eye of lawmakers and governmental officials of all stripes.

Read on AppleInsider

I removed all the deceptive opinions you flooded your article with and left behind the facts. Apple won’t allow iMessage on Android, and this is absolutely against the consumer. This is why we need better messaging protocols like XMTP and Farcaster. 

Tell me you don't know anything about SMS or software, without telling me you don't know anything about SMS or software.

And, RCS is coming.

darelrex said:

I can't imagine how I would justify such an opinion.. unless I had a severe, ulterior dislike of Apple and its customers, and on that basis I hungered for any rationale for Apple to be screwed with in any way possible.

I think that these justifications come from people who don't understand business, competition and profit. Should HBO be required to license GOT and Succession? Because if you haven't watched those, you may as well use green bubbles. Should I be able to make a bike that pretends to be a fully subscribed Peloton so I can use their services and not expect to be shut down? We keep pretending that people have no choice but they do. If you don't like Apple, don't buy it. If you like the software on Apple's platform, then fucking buy it. Get an iPhone SE for cheap and have at it. "But I don't want an Apple, I just want Messages. And Daddy, I want a trained squirrel, but not any trained squirrel, I want *that* trained squirrel".