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AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem

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1424 points moonleay | 2 comments | 16 Nov 25 00:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.421s | source
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andrewchambers ◴[16 Nov 25 04:50 UTC] No.45942849[source]▶
Mark Zuckerberg explicitly called out the airpod pairing being closed as unfair in a semi recent interview, maybe he can throw some dollars that way and get it all working nicely in some meta products.
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stavros ◴[16 Nov 25 10:10 UTC] No.45943966[source]▶
It's not up to a third party to invest into opening up Apple's purposely locked-down ecosystem.
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1. mft_ ◴[16 Nov 25 14:45 UTC] No.45945493[source]▶
…unless someone has sufficient time and/or money to spend on it, and wants to do so as a point of principle.

If I had large amounts of spare money, I’d love to seed small endeavours that (according to my personal world view) made the world incrementally better.

As has been noted before, what’s the point of having ‘FU money’ if you don’t use it to say ‘FU’ now and again?

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2. stavros ◴[16 Nov 25 15:22 UTC] No.45945752[source]▶
Yeah, but saying "maybe super rich people will do random illogical things" isn't really a great argument. For all we know, Mark Zuckerberg wants to spend his "fuck you" money locking the ecosystem down even more, as a "fuck you" to consumers.