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lordofgibbons ◴[] No.42939855[source]
I really hope this fails.

Apple will use it's dominant position to create lock in like how they did with iMessage instead of cooperating with other platforms on a common standard.

Oder friends and family are surprised when they want to video call over Facetime and find it hard to believe other people's phones don't have Apple apps.

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briandear ◴[] No.42939966[source]
I hope it succeeds. I hate FB and other “you are the product” products. I don’t care about “common standard” — I care about the best UX.
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makeitdouble ◴[] No.42940088[source]
Be the product or the caged golden goose. We sure have a choice, but I personally don't see one that much better than the other.

When Tim Cook testifies that Apple is entitled to all our digital transactions, I don't think they have a better moral stance.

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1. aucisson_masque ◴[] No.42940548[source]
Completely agree with you.

Neither is better than the other yet it's becoming more and more difficult to find people that understand the flaws of both.

I don't understand tho how something like apple can do so well in the USA, land of freedom and individual rights, when they are basically locking people into their system and telling them what they can and what they can't do.

Not being able to install whatever app you want on your phone should be a big red flag for freedom advocate. That's literally the reason why hongkong citizens massively ditched apple a few years ago when there was protestation and apple, following CCP order, banned the apps they used to organize themselves.

Yet it seems like a non issue in usa ??