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Apple Sued by U.S. Department of Justice, Says Lawsuit is 'Wrong'
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Apple adding RCS is become China is making it a requirement.
Unlike all these other democracies, when China decides to do something they do it (how well it works out is another thing), while everywhere else you have one group or another crying and preventing actions via lawsuit.
It's interesting that people in America only started to complain about inflation when Apple raised the prices of their Max Pro iPhone. 🤭
The investigation started during the Trump Administration.
There will be a discovery phase during which a lot of documents, internal emails, etc, will be on the internet for all to see. Apple's dirty linen will be washed in the public. That will surely cause a lot of damage to Apple's reputation.
Emboldened by the DOJ act, several other countries will also start taking action against Apple. Apple cannot win everywhere.
Btw, Apple's DMA compliance will be probed by DMA
How Europe's regulatory battle with Apple could signal what’s to come for American consumers
LONDON (AP) — It'll likely take years before the U.S.
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Beeper just proves that technically it is feasible to avoid green bubbles and send good quality videos. Instead of adopting it, Apple stopped Beeper, which means that Apple's actions intentionally degrade the messaging experience as well as the user's security. That is why it is important.
Beeper was trying to turn an Apple product into something that Apple did not want make. I believe Beeper should be able to make whatever product it wants but I don’t think they should be entitled to make someone else’s product into something the original company doesn’t want it to be.
You should compete on the merits of what your product offers. If Beeper made a great chat app that made users want to switch to it, that would be brilliant.
yeah, because nobody can pull that tap to pay credit card out of their wallet.
It is probably also a circle since people vehemently and always defending Apple are probably the same types of people that defend Trump whatever he does or says. Probably this has something to do with cogninitve dissonance, meaning that it is easier for them to blame everyone else or "rigged elections" than to be critical of said company or politician.
Yes, Beeper had to do that because it did not have legal access to those resources. However, Apple has. So, If Apple wanted to, it could have done it. There were no technical hurdles to enabling this for Apple. It was an intentional business decision that degraded the security and privacy of Apple consumers because, by defaulting to SMS, the security and privacy were compromised. Apple was fine with that because they could perpetuate the opinion amongst iPhone users that Android phones are of bad quality. That is why DOJ says "Apple deploys privacy and security justifications as an elastic shield that can stretch or contract to serve Apple’s financial and business interests."
I think of it the other way around.
Trump supporters want to use the government to enforce their beliefs on everyone. And here we are with Apple, where the government are trying to enforce a sub-set of consumers beliefs onto everyone.
My view is that the government should not be used as a weapon to allow the few to exert control over the many.
But that’s Apple’s prerogative as the maker of the product. Apple should have agency in deciding what it wants to make in the same way that consumers should have agency in what products they want to buy.
Consumer privacy and security is constantly put at risk by companies like Google and Facebook but we accept that both companies have agency to decide how to do business and that consumers have agency to decide whether to use their products or not.
I’m not sure why the standard is different when it concerns Apple. It just makes it feel like it’s deliberately targeted for political effect than for any meaningful reason.
Yes. Because apple vision is the 'dream device' that pretty much no one cares about?
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Totally hinder them. Opening a platform is destroying a platform. How many open platforms are able to survive? Android is not really Open and it’s a cesspool of malware. Apple is being punished for their success because the government is being duped by billion dollar corporations like Epic and Spotify that want to replace Apple. They make less than 10% of their revenue from Apple platforms but want to demand more access when they haven’t contributed to the investment in the platform anyway.
Consumers will be the real losers here because many of the Apps on the App Store were free because paid apps covered the the reinvestment, but may not be viable in the future. When Steve Jobs came back he made several changes. One was that almost all of the product they sell will have a 35% gross margin If something becomes unprofitable, cut it immediately and invest that money into something else that meets that margin.
Their success is based on saying no to a lot of things. I really find the comment in the article implying that there is something wrong with Apple making their target profit margins because others choose to sell loss leaders is offensive and problematic. Especially since, their competitors offer comparatively priced models that are more at times. Apple just does not want to play in the cheap phone market. They have always targeted the premium phone market, primarily because the lower end can’t support their target markets.
Might be. But as is is the OS is part of the hardware not a separate income generating division. The services on the other hand i can see. Not that any of that would help. Apple just plain and simple needs to play nice with others.
Should Apple have to play nice with others? In my opinion...NO. No one played nice with them before when they were smaller so Apple resorted to the fine we will do it ourselves attitude. Now that they are doing well everyone wants a piece.
Morally i think Apple does need to be more open in the end.
SO.... You want Apple to create a standard and let everyone else use that standard?
Whataboutism is not going to save Apple. They (Facebook and Google) have their own Antitrust cases opened by DOJ. Apple is the last. Beeper shows that there exists a solution that Apple could have implemented that would have enhanced the security and privacy of Apple users. However, Apple chose not to implement it so that it could lockdown the iPhone thereby putting the user's security and privacy at risk (falling back on SMS which is not secure). So, what is it? Does Apple give preference to security and privacy or profits? Their words say something whereas their actions say otherwise.
You do realise the grainy video from outside is because of the carrier crunching data to a size they deem is ok to send?
Apple receive the data in crap and just display it.
Every carrier has a different file size and crunch factor.
But none of it is Apple's fault. It's MMS.
Why anyone would need to send a large hires file via SMS/MMS is beyond reason when so many alternatives exist that are designed for those larger files. Or use Dropbox and email a link.
Didnt beeper want you to sign in with an Apple ID and give them your password?
Yeah, no security risk there at all... hahaha
the green bubble and low res video is due to carrier compression. Apple just receive and display it. It came to them in crap MMS low res format.
Use an app that lets you send bigger files.
Apple uses Messages because it doesnt use the MMS method to share videos between users.
Calling it a dangerous "precedent" is hilarious 😄
👉 Someone has been dictating many thousands of app developers what features their own individual apps shouldn't or shouldn't offer.
And I don't have to spell out who that "dictator" is. The precedent was set 16 years ago. The difference? This time, it's a (more or less) democratically elected government rather than the world's biggest, profit-maximising corporation.
Not only is China doing it - Tim Apple has shown remarkable restraint and deference in complying with China's demands. Contrast that to Apple's fierce objections to regulation by more democratic jurisdictions.
Microsoft Windows has been fine as a platform. It certainly hasn't been destroyed.
Or, I bet they would if they had to. I'm sure Samsung has the same feelings towards this as Apple does (Buy our hardware!)...
IIRC only after Apple reacted to it to attempt shutting it down and implemented blocks. The original beeper implementation did not require an Apple ID.