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651 points openchampagne | 1 comments | 04 Feb 25 16:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.313s | source
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jbentley1 ◴[04 Feb 25 16:43 UTC] No.42934803[source]▶
Unless they add some basic functionality to include Android users, this is the evilest use of their walled garden yet.
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dlachausse ◴[04 Feb 25 17:34 UTC] No.42935724[source]▶
What's preventing Google from competing and making their own better version of this? I don't see where there's anything that Apple is doing here that couldn't be easily replicated by them using their own ecosystem.
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1. vzaliva ◴[04 Feb 25 21:21 UTC] No.42938915[source]▶
then we will have 2 incompativle invite systems: form Apple and from Google.

The correct way to do this is to publish an open standard/API so 3rd parties can participate.