Tim Cook's response to Android texting compatibility: 'buy your mom an iPhone'
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Re: Tim Cook's response to Android texting compatibility: 'buy your mom an iPhone'
#2This is why I don't buy or recommend apple products anymore. I was never a fanboi, but rather had some nice experiences (about 10 years ago - eg I am just retiring my 2012 Retina MBP - and it still works, just a little slow these days).
Besides, get mom onto Signal and it doesn't matter any more.
Re: Tim Cook's response to Android texting compatibility: 'buy your mom an iPhone'
#3The lack of interoperability is strictly illegal since it's being leveraged to expand Apple's already formidable market power (using market power to extend market power is the strictly illegal part) by pushing people to buy an iphone. Cook can hardly deny that's a conscious thought at Apple, 'cause he just said the quiet part out loud.
FRO - IINAL but I do know "monopoly" is not the correct term in law, "market power" is. You don't need to be a monopoly to violate the laws.
Re: Tim Cook's response to Android texting compatibility: 'buy your mom an iPhone'
#4Why is iMessage even an issue? All phones can send conventional texts to each other
Re: Tim Cook's response to Android texting compatibility: 'buy your mom an iPhone'
#5The lack of interoperability is strictly illegal since it's being leveraged to expand Apple's already formidable market power (using market power to extend market power is the strictly illegal part) by pushing people to buy an iphone. Cook can hardly deny that's a conscious thought at Apple, 'cause he just said the quiet part out loud. FRO - IINAL but I do know "monopoly" is not the correct term in law, "market power…
If you’re telling me that any sort of vendor lock-in is illegal then this law is being flagrantly violated all the time by everything from computers to razors to Diaper Genies.
Re: Tim Cook's response to Android texting compatibility: 'buy your mom an iPhone'
#6This is why I don't buy or recommend apple products anymore. I was never a fanboi, but rather had some nice experiences (about 10 years ago - eg I am just retiring my 2012 Retina MBP - and it still works, just a little slow these days). Besides, get mom onto Signal and it doesn't matter any more.
What are you replacing your MacBook with?
Re: Tim Cook's response to Android texting compatibility: 'buy your mom an iPhone'
#7The lack of interoperability is strictly illegal since it's being leveraged to expand Apple's already formidable market power (using market power to extend market power is the strictly illegal part) by pushing people to buy an iphone. Cook can hardly deny that's a conscious thought at Apple, 'cause he just said the quiet part out loud. FRO - IINAL but I do know "monopoly" is not the correct term in law, "market power…
Apple doesn't have a monopoly of mobile devices.
Re: Tim Cook's response to Android texting compatibility: 'buy your mom an iPhone'
#8I think the funniest aspect of this is that I'm planning on buying my mom an iphone next month to solve this issue.
Re: Tim Cook's response to Android texting compatibility: 'buy your mom an iPhone'
#9Why is iMessage even an issue? All phones can send conventional texts to each other
According to the article, some videos and things like this, and also the phone showing non-iMessage SMS in a different color, an apparent source of embarrassment to teens. But personally I can’t say I have ever noticed this limitation.
Re: Tim Cook's response to Android texting compatibility: 'buy your mom an iPhone'
#10Why is iMessage even an issue? All phones can send conventional texts to each other
Or use a messenger like WhatsApp or Signal