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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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tonyhart7 ◴[] No.42942901[source]
Well, I agree with your sentiment, but that's what people are buying though.

People buy iPhones because 'they're different' due to iOS, the ecosystem, etc. I mean, high-end Android devices are really on par with, if not better than, iPhones, but people still buy iPhones because they don't want to share that feeling with everyone else.

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1. HDThoreaun ◴[] No.42947920[source]
I buy iPhones because Ive got many hundreds of dollars of content on my ios account that is decades old at this point.