Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggesting a long fight ahead
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#4Beeper CEO, from the article: "If there's enough pressure on Apple, they will have to quit messing with us." "Us," he clarified, meant both Apple's customers using iMessage and Android users trying to chat securely with iPhone friends.
"That's who they're penalizing," he wrote. "It's not a Beeper vs. Apple fight, it's Apple versus customers."
Not really sure how this is anti-customer. Apple customers have ample access to iMessage, after all. And as has been noted many, many times, there are many means of accessing secure cross-platform messaging.
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#6MSN Messenger played a similar cat-and-mouse game with AOL Instant Messenger long time ago. Unlike MSN Messenger which used this publicity to grow their own market share, I am not sure what's the end game for Beeper.
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What's this in reference to? WhatsApp, Signal, and many others are in the App Store.
Re: Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggesting a long fight ahead
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#9Beeper CEO, from the article: "If there's enough pressure on Apple, they will have to quit messing with us." "Us," he clarified, meant both Apple's customers using iMessage and Android users trying to chat securely with iPhone friends. "That's who they're penalizing," he wrote. "It's not a Beeper vs. Apple fight, it's Apple versus customers." Not really sure how this is anti-customer. Apple customers have ample acces…
> Apple customers have ample access to iMessage, after all.
It's not really fair that Apple gets to build snares around owning the most successful and important platform in modern civilization. This isn't an automobile where there are 50 alternative manufacturers, this is the "everything" device that handles your bills, employment, connections to loved ones, etc. And there's only one other choice of vendor in the United States.
Apple shouldn't be able to exercise their position (nor should Google) to own every aspect of human life built atop this connection. Mobile internet shouldn't belong to anyone. It shouldn't be taxed by anyone. And yet here we are.
One of the first rulings from antitrust I would expect is non-proprietary messaging protocols.
Re: Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggesting a long fight ahead
#10Beeper CEO, from the article: "If there's enough pressure on Apple, they will have to quit messing with us." "Us," he clarified, meant both Apple's customers using iMessage and Android users trying to chat securely with iPhone friends. "That's who they're penalizing," he wrote. "It's not a Beeper vs. Apple fight, it's Apple versus customers." Not really sure how this is anti-customer. Apple customers have ample acces…
I'm an apple customer but I don't agree that I have ample access to iMessage. I use a MacBook and have an old iPhone lying around, but I use my android phone for daily messaging, including my family who use iPhones.