WhatsApp sends Cease and Desists for apps that use native Android APIs

Post by pseudalopex » Fri, Jul 06, 2018, 1:19 AM UTC

jolmg wrote: post #95

amelius wrote: post #73

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> The problem is there no laws to stop whoever becomes the lucky recipient of such a network effect from doing whatever they want. There's the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Quoting from Wikipedia: > Since communications services exhibit network effects and positive externalities, new entrants would face barriers to entry if they could not interconnect their networks with those of the incumbent carriers. Thus, anoth…

Sounds like it goes in the right direction. So why isn't this being applied to whatsapp? Are they not considered a carrier? Wording it a bit weird, though. "interconnect their networks with one another"? If whatsapp made their client authenticate with their services so that their servers only work with their client and vice versa, would waiting for requests from would-be competitors to give them special access be suf…

Post by vageli » Mon, Jul 09, 2018, 12:54 AM UTC

qeternity wrote: post #52

vageli wrote: post #43

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In what way does ubiquity equate to superiority? Popularity does not confer superiority.

Haha of course it does, though perhaps not to you. If there were a superior alternative, people would use it. You're just defining this problem so narrowly has only the app itself or something. It's the network, the integrations, the history, etc.