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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    11 months ago

    Your primary contribution to this conversation is to bitch about how no one engages with you? I see users responding to you but then all you are responding back with is editing your comment to say “thanks for answering”? Idk man… maybe it’s your approach to dialogue. Being super dismissive and retaliatory tends to bring downvotes.

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        Oh I see. Didn’t realize you’d already deleted it. Anyway, best of luck; I think you bring up valid complaints but idk why the vitriol. This crowd is much less annoying than what’s found in some similar forums. Don’t let the downvotes bother you too much.

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            Very much with you on that stance. However, this “bubble battle” is very much an echo chamber scenario, regardless where it’s discussed.

            Heck, let me just ask you directly: why does Apple maintain such a divisive stance on the subject?

            I haven’t gotten much (on several forums) regarding that question, more than “they choose too”.

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                Yes but imagine in an established system, let’s use the US mail as an example, I create a stamp that meets the criteria of postage stamps but also (somehow; after all it is proprietary) requires the opening of the mailed parcel to be contingent upon something like watching an ad, or “signing in” unless you have a subscription at my fancy new parcel stamp company…

                I would imagine that most of us would not want to simply “accept this new ecosystem” and would struggle with legitimizing it.

                The sunken cost fallacy comes to mind; as those who have “subscribed” to such a business model don’t perceive themselves as inconvenienced… And only when comparing themselves to those who aren’t subscribed could they even know the shady business model even exists!

                In the end, it feels like Apple is intentionally creating systemic division so that it’s customer base feels like they are a part of something exclusive (even if said exclusive content/system doesn’t appear to serve them in any way other than “feeling exclusive”).

                Apple could very easily mitigate the echo chamber they have created. But they created it to serve the Apple shareholders, alone.

                No?

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                    11 months ago

                    First off, just want to thank you for the civil discourse. It’s why we are here, right?

                    But in your rebuttal… keep in mind that the iPhone users are effected in as much as the only solution an iPhone user can currently offer (when their iPhone image is compressed to a nearly illegible degree after being sent to any non-iPhone user) is “maybe you should buy an iPhone like I did” or they have to use an entirely different system to resend the image (this latter solution being more inconvenient to the iPhone user).

                    As someone said below:

                    “Apple could release their own iMessage client for Android if this were really about trusting beeper, but it’s not. It’s about using peer pressure with blue bubbles to sell more iPhones.”

                    I feel its either sunken-cost-fallacy-as-brand-ambassadorship or simply (yet another example of) bad faith arguments to support such underhanded “but… is it illegal?” behavior that borders on needing current anti-trust requirements to be reevaluated.

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                  11 months ago

                  iMessage is not a stamp in this analogy - it is a whole separate post office and infrastructure, including staff and policies.

                  You’re mischaracterising the argument.

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        It’s an issue I’ve been seeing in this community growing on the internet for a while now, so yeah I’m gonna bitch when this place starts turning into reddit the internet.

        There, fixed.

        It’s the internet, grow some thicker skin, or figure out how to interface with your fellow netizens differently.

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            11 months ago

            Mmhmm. 40+ years of online communities and nobody has figured it out at scale yet? Maybe because there will always be assholes.

            It’s less resource intensive to tolerate a certain amount of assholery, rather than rule with an iron fist to the detriment of everyone else (false positives, reporting-system abuse, etc).

            That’s where my suggestion above comes from, a realist perspective. Go ahead and ask the mods here how difficult it is to effect the “change” you’ve invoked.