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651 points openchampagne | 1 comments | 04 Feb 25 16:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | 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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bossyTeacher ◴[04 Feb 25 23:34 UTC] No.42940873[source]▶
It's the same. They are all walled gardens (whether hardware walled gardens or software walled gardens)
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lordofgibbons ◴[05 Feb 25 00:13 UTC] No.42941364[source]▶
As much I deeply dislike Meta, it's not the same. I can simply open the Play store install facebook or Instagram. For the Apple walled garden, I need to spend $800+ USD
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1. mmcclure ◴[05 Feb 25 03:10 UTC] No.42943222[source]▶
It feels like everyone's talking past each other in a big way on this thread. You don't need an Apple Device to participate in one of these events. At most you might need an iCloud account, which, (imo) is pretty much the same as Meta and crew.

Unrelated to that point, as other posters have called out, folks pretty consistently overstate the cost of Apple hardware relative to peers. You can spend $800 on a new iPhone 16, the latest release, or half that on an iPhone SE. Both of these options are available right now on Apple.com. This feels like saying you'd need to spend $1000+ on an Android because that's how much the newest Pixel costs.