Senator Warren calls out Apple for shutting down Beeper’s ‘iMessage to Android’ solution::U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is throwing her weight behind Beeper, the app that allowed Android users to message iPhone users via iMessage,
Senator Warren calls out Apple for shutting down Beeper’s ‘iMessage to Android’ solution::U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is throwing her weight behind Beeper, the app that allowed Android users to message iPhone users via iMessage,
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Step 1) use peer pressure to get teens on platform
Step 2) vendor lock-in to keep them as lifetime customers
Step 3) profit
You need the dumb parents to participate. If parents just said “no, you’re getting an android”, this wouldn’t be a problem. Parents are complicit.
And how does that stop bullying?
Kids are monsters. Nothing you ever do will stop bullying at school. Humans will always find a reason to hurt each other.
They would do that because they suddenly changed their mind about their strategy needing to keep things as proprietary as possible. It’s unlikely, but apple did do that to a degree with osx
Not how capitalism works. Sadly
They specifically don’t want to do this. They’ve admitted that they want peer pressure to support and bolster their iPhone sales.
It’s super fucked up.