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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'

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Stop being a snobby elitest. Choosing an Apple phone doesn't make you better than, and making life-choices based on such matters.. well, good luck with that.

Agreed. Choosing Apple is like watching The Big Bang Theory. Or buying some burnt trash from Starbucks.

Re: Tim Cook's response to Android texting compatibility: 'buy your mom an iPhone'

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I think the funniest aspect of this is that I'm planning on buying my mom an iphone next month to solve this issue.

That's not funny, that's sad.

In the sad world that tech has built for us, you have to find the humor where you can ;)

Re: Tim Cook's response to Android texting compatibility: 'buy your mom an iPhone'

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Tried an iPhone for a month when my Samsung S21 went in for repair. The perceived sheer lack of features and big UX gaps and missing features instantly made me profoundly dislike iPhone. Just my opinion.

Can you be more specific? I feel that an iPhone user might say the same about android if they were to switch.

Re: Tim Cook's response to Android texting compatibility: 'buy your mom an iPhone'

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Are you a Seinfeld character?

"I had to break up with her! She's a green bubbler, Jerry: Every message I get, bloop bloop bloop -- green bubbles! Regular texts, Jerry. Not even encrypted. She probably thinks iMessage is a sentence fragment!"

Re: Tim Cook's response to Android texting compatibility: 'buy your mom an iPhone'

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In some ways his comment is correct. iPhones can be had for pretty cheap and are functional for a long time compared to their Android counterparts. Most non-techies are more comfortable with iPhones in my experience. Your experience might differ.

Re: Tim Cook's response to Android texting compatibility: 'buy your mom an iPhone'

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The 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…

Well not yet, but the EU is working on it;

The Digital Markets Act states that major messaging services must be interoperable.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/nl/press-room/20220315IP...

Re: Tim Cook's response to Android texting compatibility: 'buy your mom an iPhone'

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That's not funny, that's sad.

In the sad world that tech has built for us, you have to find the humor where you can ;)

You don't have to buy her an iPhone

Re: Tim Cook's response to Android texting compatibility: 'buy your mom an iPhone'

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The 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…

Are you using “market power” differently than the common definition in economics? It normally refers to any firm which has the ability to set prices above marginal cost without losing revenue, i.e. any firm in a market that lacks perfect competition, i.e. every firm that actually exists.

Re: Tim Cook's response to Android texting compatibility: 'buy your mom an iPhone'

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The 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.

He isnt. The illegality or lack thereof is determined by your level of market power.
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