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Apple Sued by U.S. Department of Justice, Says Lawsuit is 'Wrong'
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It’s selecting the one that other tech companies have lobbied DoJ to go after. This is tech company vs tech company. Nothing to do with consumers.
There was no insurrection, jfc
You can only decide which Apple product to upgrade because Apple is the only choice.
That's laughable to think that a 3T (TRILLION) dollar company can't and doesn't have resource to work on this. Come on now, this is not your mom and pop shop. You are giving Apple WAY too little credit. And I would argue it's not a 'very small percentage' of users. In the beginning maybe only a few will move away, but slowly and gradually as competitive products get better and more 'apple' like, more and more will move.
Great, so you don't have friends that run Android, congrats? What if there are people who do and are Apple users? Screw them right? And if it's open, my question remains, exactly what harm will you get as iPhone user? nothing will happen to you besides now you can't laugh at people with green bubble. What else?
Where have you been? People have been complaining for YEARS since iMessage came out, but Apple hides behind its BS excuse of security and blah blah that only Apple knows what's best for you. Apple will never change had it not been the antitrust.
No because you have a choice of choosing between Milwaukee or Dewalt set, neither one of them is withholding any basic function that if you switch brand you will lose.
well, just by looking at apple App Store revenue and comparing it to the revenue of the play store - which is the de-facto place to get sw for your android device and happens to have about 4 or 5 times as much potential customers as apple's App Store, a very clear picture can be seen about developer preferences.
no questions though that every single developer would've preferred an agreement with less (or even no) fees, yet here they are, trying to sell their digital goods to a minority group on the smartphone market.
Except, they paid the Developer fee, please stop saying they want it free
Fine, be that way, make a distinction to paying $99 a year and free on sales of billions of dollars, that really changes the math.
The DOJ wants backdoors to Apple's security. Apple isn't ever going to do that so the DOJ is doing its best to weaken the platform and they figure the best shot at doing that is forcing Apple to open up.
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Great software engineers are hard to find. And not all of those want to work for Apple. The ability for Apple and the rest if the industry to hire great talent is limited by factors other than their revenues.
Yes there are, they each have tools that the other doesn't. You buy into the ecosystem. If you buy an Android app should you get it for free when you switch.
What industry do you work in that sees major change every year? The processors push the envelope of what is possible every year.
The Apple wearables business is by itself a $40 Billion dollar segment. I don't know what you think that this is trivial.
A 27 year old built a prototype. One with glaring security holes. Scaling that solution to two billion people would be much more difficult. That scaling could have been impossible beyond a million daily users. That 27 year old also did not need to build a support model. Still a great initiative for a young software developer. No one has said that bringing iMessage to the non Apple world is impossible. It is however much more difficult than some would make it out to be.
You seem to have a high opinion of Apple. Please read the following.
This isn't an opinion. State where they have been found to be a monopoly? To be a monopoly you have to be the only 1 (hence the mono in monopoly). They are not the only one. At best they are a duopoly when it comes to operating systems used on mobile phones. While they did not always used to be a duopoly in the OS space. They didn't do anything to force out competition in the space. Blackberry, Nokia, Palm, WindowsCE, Symbian, WebOS, etc. All failed on their own. And we still have plenty of hardware vendors out there competing with Apple's iPhone.
Google is open by default. Everything you want to do is possible with an Android OS. So Apple has competition in the space. And even though Apple has chosen to be a closed system. People still purchase their products. More in the US than the rest of the world. Knowing exactly what it is how it works and what you get for the money. If at any point you don't like it or don't agree with the "Apple" way of doing things. You can move away from it to another device and OS that will cover all the needs you may have or want. They both have the ability to help you migrate to and from each other with a USB cable. All your data goes across. You will have to get your apps again, but that is a small price to pay to be able to go between when you want.
No one is trapped. No one is forced. The door swings both ways.
Because they don't work...
- Galaxy Watch4, Watch5, and Watch6: These watches rely on Google Play services which is not supported on iOS.
- Gear 1, Gear 2, Gear S, and Gear Fit: These watches are not supported on iOS.
What security hole? Beeper was using fake credentials whereas Apple would not need to. Beeper mini had local and end-to-end encryption, whereas Apple's solution of SMS did not have that.
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) shamed Apple for its intervention in a post on X, formerly Twitter, saying “Green bubble texts are less secure. So why would Apple block a new app allowing Android users to chat with iPhone users on iMessage? Big Tech executives are protecting profits by squashing competitors. Chatting between different platforms should be easy and secure,” she wrote.
No. I think a majority of the case is solid and appropriate. But supporting a case doesn't keep me from acknowledging a lie and other flaws in the DOJs statement. It also doesn't mean I have to support all the points the DOJ made.
But why do you feel the need to defend the lie? There's certainly a difference between lying and paraphrasing.
No. It's a lie because it's a deliberate falsehood.
What do you think they are being investigated for now? Like I said, it's your opinion 🤦♂️🙄