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651 points openchampagne | 1 comments | 04 Feb 25 16:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.255s | source
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lordofgibbons ◴[04 Feb 25 22:24 UTC] 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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yumraj ◴[04 Feb 25 23:05 UTC] No.42940471[source]▶
But isn’t that the same when people and schools create effing Facebook groups and events or whatever they are called and find it hard to believe that people don’t use that crap. Or create WhatsApp groups and communities and so on and on.
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chippiewill ◴[04 Feb 25 23:07 UTC] No.42940495[source]▶
Yes, but at least those don't have hardware lock-in.
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1. malloci ◴[04 Feb 25 23:18 UTC] No.42940649[source]▶
From the article, however, you don't technically need an apple device...an iCloud+ account is sufficient. That said, I don't know many people with iCloud+ who aren't already in the Apple ecosystem, and obviously anything Apple releases will obviously have some advantage to it if you use the hardware alone.